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Yes - It has chambers which are separated by valves and surrounded by muscles which squeeze and relax to pump blood around the body
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What is the heart is it a system or organ or tissue?
The heart is an organ.
Why is the heart an organ and not a tissue?
Heart is an organ. It's a pumping organ which pumps the blood to the whole body. Organ means a working part of an organism (system)\ Since heart is a working part of our body, therefore it's an organ
What level of organization is in the human heart?
The heart is an organ within the circulatory system. It is make up of different tissues working together to pump blood.
What organ is larger a heart or a liver?
The skin is the largest organ, but of the two organs quoted in the question, the liver is larger than the heart.
What is the organ that enables heart beat faster when you exercise?
The nervous system causes the heart to beat faster when you exercise. It itself is not an organ but a system.
What is the hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the body?
Your Heart is an organ that pumps blood through your body.
How will you describe the heart?
Its a hollow muscular organ and it works like a pump.
How will you describe heart?
Its a hollow muscular organ and it works like a pump.
What does ventricle mean?
A concave/cavernous area of an organ is a ventricle. Like the hollow compartments in the heart.
What is the hollow muscular organ that protects and nourishes a developing fetus?
The uterusIt is called a uterus.
Is the placenta a hollow muscular organ?
No, it's the uterus which is a hollow muscular organ.
What is the job of a valve?
A structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
What organ large hollow muscular organ that can expand like a balloon?
what large hollow muscular organ that can expand like a balloon
Is the larynx a hollow organ at the top of the windpipe?
It's not entirely hollow, but yes, it is a organ that sits atop the trachea
What organ in the stomach is hollow?
The stomach is hollow. There are no individual organs inside the stomach.
When was How Hollow Heart... created?
How Hollow Heart... was created on 1996-03-28.
What is perforated hollow viscus?
Viscus means organ. So hollow viscus means an organ than has a lumen or open space within it, like the stomach and intestines. Perforated hollow viscus is an organ with a lumen that has a hole in it such that contents can escape from inside the organ to outside the organ. If a gastric ulcer perforated, it would be a perforated hollow viscus, allowing gastric acid and contents out into the abdominal cavity.
