Heart

Heart

The heart is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. It is found in all animals with a circulatory system (including all vertebrates).

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    “For like as herbs and trees bringen forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.”
    —Thomas Malory (c. 1430–1471)

    “The moon gives you light,
    And the bugles and the drums give you music,
    And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
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