PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The apex of the heart is the very tip and helps pump or “wring out” blood from the ventricles to the rest of the body (LV apex) or the lungs (RV apex). It does this by helping regulate the right and left ventricles of the heart and allowing them to pump blood upward and out of the heart.

Detailed explanation-2: -The distal end of the heart extends downward, to the left, ending in a blunt point called the apex, which is even with the fifth intercostal space. The apex points toward the left hip. Just below the left nipple, between the fifth and sixth ribs, theapi-cal impulse can easily be felt.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the anatomical position, the apex of the heart is the confluence of the inferior and left borders. It is a projection inferiorly, anteriorly and to the left of the left ventricle.