I don’t understand how you can see your heart beating. (?) Aren’t there things in front of it to protect it from any damage like your lungs and ribs and skin?
I don’t understand how you can see your heart beating. (?) Aren’t there things in front of it to protect it from any damage like your lungs and ribs and skin?
All the time. Sometimes when my heart is really pumping, you can see it through my clothes/bedspreads, too. I've once had it so bad when I was lying face-down that my bed was moving slightly, too. That was kind of amusing and freaky at the same time. But yeah, my heart does beat kind of hard.
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Originally Posted by **ShadowZone**
I don’t understand how you can see your heart beating. (?) Aren’t there things in front of it to protect it from any damage like your lungs and ribs and skin?
To elaborate, your heart is behind the sternum in a cavity called the mediastinum. The sternum is your breastbone in layman’s terms and that is your protection from your heart. Oh and your pericardium but that doesn't do much if you get a spear through the chest.
The heart is not behind your lungs, it is beside them. That is why your left lung is slightly smaller; because the heart is slightly more too the left, though as a whole it is quite near the centre of your body.
My stomach pulses with every beat of my heart. ALL the time. I can't be moving food along that often. I could not eat all day and it still does ityou wont see it beating in your stomach. That is the peristalsis of your gut as it moves your food along your gut.
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OK, whatever you say. But peristalsis is a passive process that is always happening.
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