Heart - how poetic epithets and metaphors associated with this body: "golden heart", "heart is broken", "take to heart", "heart skips a beat," "to love with all my heart" and many others. How many songs and poems dedicated to his ability to love. People have given this romantic heart function is not accidental. Remember what happens to this body in the presence of the object of passion as it freezes, when we are frightened, and pounding when excited.
And on how carefully you treat your heartIt depends not only on the health and quality of life, but also its duration. Editorial Kolobok.ua I collected the most amazing facts about how our heart.
- His heart begins to work in the fourth week intrauterine lifeperson, and does not stop until his death.
- The rate of the heartbeat of the fetus of about 140 beats per minute. By the 12th week of intrauterine life it is already able to pump 28 liters of blood per day.
- The body of a newborn baby of about one cup of blood.
- In one minute, a man's heart makes 72 beats. Not so much? But it is 100 thousand times a day, 36.5 million - a year; approximately 2.5 billion - over a lifetime.
- A woman's heart beats, usually male faster - on average 78 beats per minute.
- In one minute, the heart pumps from 5 to 30 liters of blood.
- During the life of an average heart pumps about 5.7 million liters of blood.
- heartbeat occurs when the heart valves slam.
- To get from the kitchen faucet to pour the amount of water equal to the volume of blood, pumped an average heart for a human life, it should be fully open for 45 years.
- 5% of the blood is in the heart, 15-20% goes to the brain and central nervous system, 22% - in the kidney.
- At rest, only need 6 seconds to reached the blood from the heart to the lungs and went back, 8 seconds - from the heart to the brain, 16 seconds for the blood supply to the extremities of the fingers and back.
- Because the heart generates its own electrical impulses, it can continue to work even after being separated from the body, provided that it will be enough oxygen.
- Heart supplies blood to about 75 trillion cells. The blood supply is not only in the eye of the cornea.
- During the day, the heart develops in the average amount of energy sufficient to passenger car drove 32 km. During his life he would get to the moon and back.
- The ancient Egyptians believed that the heart and other internal organs of the body can be moved with the help of strong-willed decisions.
- Plato said that thoughts arise in the mind and passion in his heart.
- French physician René Laennec (1781-1826 gg.) Invented the stethoscope as listen to the heart, putting his ear to the chest, in patients with a large bust was difficult.
- Erasistratus doctor from the island of Chios (304-250 gg. BC. e.) first suggested that the heart does in the body of the pump function.
- The Roman physician Galen claimed that the heart produces blood. And only in 1616 the Irish biologist William Harvey proved that blood in the body of a limited amount and it moves in a circle.
- Cocaine affects the electrical activity of the heart and its intake can cause heart attack and stroke, even in perfectly healthy people.
