Posted By Jenis Shah
What is heart
Heart is the most important organ in your body. Heart is a bag of specialized muscles which keeps on pumping blood from the time you are born till your death. There is no life when heart stops. Basic function of heart is to pump blood to the entire body. Right heart receives impure blood from the entire body and send to lungs for oxygenation/purification. After oxygenation in lungs blood reaches in left heart and left heart pumps this pure blood to the entire body.
Similar to a house which has its walls, rooms, doors, water supply and electrical supply heart has its room like chambers (right and left atria and ventricles), valves (doors), blood circulation (water supply) and conduction system (electrical system).
Problems in chambers (rooms/walls) lead to weak heart or stiff heart resulting in heart failure. Defective valves (doors) lead to leakage or narrowing. Blockage in blood supply (water supply) to heart results in angina and heart attack and problems in conduction system (electrical system) results in very low or very high heart rate which may cause cardiac arrest.
So now after knowing about functions of heart and its structure we should give more care and respect to our heart and heart of our near and dear ones :)
