11 Amazing Facts About Human Heart
Fact #1 - A woman's heart beats faster than man's heart beats .
Fact #2 - Physician Erasistratus (304BC-250BC) of Chios was the first who discovered that the function of Heart is to pump blood .
Fact #3 - The heart pumps oxygenated blood through the aorta (the largest artery) at about 1.6 km per hour .
Fact #4 - “Atrium” is Latin word means “entrance hall,” and “ventricle” is Latin word means “little belly.”
Fact #5 - The heartbeat's sound was made by the four valves of the heart closing.
Fact #6 - The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75,000,000,000,000 cells.
Fact #7 - French physician Rene Laennec (1781-1826) invented the stethoscope .
Fact #8 - Heart can continue to beat even when separated from the body , as long as it has an adequate supply of oxygen .
Fact #9 - In an average life times human heart will beat 2.5 million times .
Fact #10 - The heats become beating at four weeks after conception .
Fact #11 - The heart does the most physical work of any muscle during the life time .
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