BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Coronary Circulation, Myocardial Infarction, Sega Wow
13 Apr 2020
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It"s the only organ that moves on a regular basis, but really it"s just a pump: gladiator wounds provide first glimpse of function. Gladiator wounds provide first glimpse of function: gladiators would get cut in half, heart would keep pumping, they would observe the heart. Ibn al-nafis 1210 1288: arabic scholar who described heart as well, described the system almost 600 years before harvey did. Heart pumps 2. 6 billion times during your life: 5 to 6 litres each minute, 100,000 km of blood vessels, circulated through a large amount of vessels, only organ in the body that can take this kind of punishment. Hand opening and closing will get very sore after a few minutes. Coronary vessels feed the heart: key weakness that the heart has. Everything else (in order of prevalence): alcohol; lack of exercise; uv radiation; environmental exposure (2 - 4.
