Located in the thoracic cavity, the heart is a four-chambered muscular organ that serves as the primary pump or driving force within the circulatory system. The heart contains a special form of muscle, appropriately named cardiac muscle, that has...

The heart is a muscular pump which serves to circulate the blood throughout the body. The structure of the heart in vertebrates (organisms with backbones) is remarkable similar. All vertebrates have at least one atrium (a chamber which receives blood...

The influences of the biophysical environment on human behaviour are never purely material or ‘natural’, but are always in part cultural since they are mediated by the culturally determined ways in which they are perceived. The influence of...

HEART. Analysis of the symbolic values attached to the heart shows an unquestionable distance between the heart as a source of biological life and its diverse meanings for the emotional, moral, and religious life. The word heart may be specific, but...

The heart (♥) has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past also intellectual core of a human being. As the heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human mind, the word heart continues to be...

"I just finished showing Dances With Wolves to my American literature class. I love that movie," Jessie announced as she walked into the faculty room. Stan's ears perked up as he listened closely. "Every time I show it, " Jessie continued, "my...

Just four days ago, Nikolai Ryzhkov was boasting that he was the only close collaborator of Mikhail Gorbachev still at the Soviet leader's side after nearly six tumultuous years of perestroika reforms. Today, his political career is effectively over. The heart attack suffered...

Q: I am well-educated, and spent much of my twenties teaching in a foreign country. I fell in love with a much older, married dignitary and was his mistress for several years; eventually, the adventure lost its allure and I returned to the U.S. so...

Medicine: Cardiac patients in Britain may soon be getting replacement heart valves grown from their own adult stem cells. You may not have heard about this miracle on the evening news.Few people read the British journal Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society, but the current...