PATHOLOGY MCQ
HEART
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Question
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Muscular Organ
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Triangular Organ
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Sphere Shape
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Roughly like two closed fists.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In humans, the heart is roughly the size of a large fist and weighs between about 10 and 12 ounces (280 and 340 grams) in men, and between 8 and 10 ounces (230 and 280 grams) in women, according to Henry Gray’s “Anatomy of the Human Body."
Detailed explanation-2: -The blood pumped by your heart provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs to function. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The human heart is a four-chambered muscular organ, shaped and sized roughly like a man’s closed fist with two-thirds of the mass to the left of midline. The heart is enclosed in a pericardial sac that is lined with the parietal layers of a serous membrane.