MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hold out your hand and make a fist. If you’re a kid, your heart is about the same size as your fist, and if you’re an adult, it’s about the same size as two fists. Your heart beats about 100, 000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year.

Detailed explanation-2: -Purpose: Several medical textbooks state that a human heart is approximately the size of that person’s fist. Stating that a heart has the size of the corpse’s fist is thought to signify that the heart size is normal.

Detailed explanation-3: -The mean length of the heart was 11.41 cm (range, 3 to 14 cm). The average width of the heart measured 8.21 cm. The minimum weight of the heart was 21 g, and its maximum weight was 593 g. The chordae tendineae ranged between 4 and 35, with a mean of 19.41 ± 6.70.

Detailed explanation-4: -The heart is about the size of the clenched fist of its owner. It averages about 12 cm long, and 9 cm wide (5.0 inches by 3.5 inches).

Detailed explanation-5: -Your heart is about the size of a clenched fist, and weighs between 300 and 450 g. It lies in the middle of your chest, behind and slightly to the left of your breastbone.