It means you are a normal individual. The right side of the heart supplies flow to and from the lungs. The left side must provide flow to the entire rest of the body. As a result, the left side of the heart must be stronger, hence larger.
The left side of the heart is bigger than the right. The left side of the heart has a much thicker muscular wall as it must generate enough pressure to pump blood to the whole body. The right may appear bigger, but this is just because the anterior surface of the heart is predominantly the right atrium and ventricle, while the left side sits more posteriorly.
The heart is designed to have the left side larger, the systemic circuit, because that is the side that pumps blood to the whole body. In relation, the right side is smaller because it only pumps blood to the lungs. The two sides of the heart can be abnormally different in size, and that is what a doctor may refer to as being bigger than it is supposed to be.
There are different causes for one, or the other side, to be larger than it is supposed to be. And, the only person that can answer that question is your doctor.
For most folks yes. for about 1 out of1,000 it is reversed.
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The muscle on that side of the heart has to push bloody all the way round the body so the only way to generate enough pressure is to have a large muscle on that side to force the blood round
In the normal heart, the left side is bigger than the right.
what does it mean if the right side of the heart is bigger then the left side ?
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The left.
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The left ventricle would have more.
The heart is divided into right and left sides by the a Cuckaroo Suture. Nothing more.
They are the right ventricle, left ventricle, right atrium, and left atrium. For more details you can take a look here: http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/starthere/a/chambersvalves.htm http://www.revolutionhealth.com/articles/chambers-of-the-heart/tp10241
Your heart is not on the center line of your body for several reasons. Your left ventricle has to pump a lot stronger than the right ventricle. Your left ventricle has to pump blood all over your body. Your right one just pumps blood to your lungs which are right there. The right side is smaller than your left side. Since the right side of your heart is smaller than the left side of your heart, that makes more room on the right side of your chest. Since your body will have more room on the right side of your chest than on the left side, that means your lung will have more room on your right side. Still, it will not have enough room to do anything. But, if It moves your heart a little bit more over to the left, it can put a lobe in your lung to the right. That way your lung can have three lobes on the right side and two lobes on the left side.
The right lung is slightly bigger due to the heart. The heart takes up more room on the left side so that the right lung has more room on the right side.
The atrial septum divides the left and right atria of the heart. The intraventricular septum divides the left and right ventricles of the heart.
The heart is composed of the Right Atrium and Right Ventricle (collectively known as the Right Heart) and the Left Atrium and Left Ventricle (colelctively known as the Left Heart).
it covers the heart
its when the heart is on the right side of the body and not on the left its when the heart is on the right side of the body and not on the left
The bulk of the heart rests on the Left side of this heart.
The heart is divided into four chambers. I personally find it helpful, however, to think of the heart as being divided into two sides, instead, a left and right side. The right side of the heart is larger and more powerful than the right.
Right Atrium , Left Atrium , Right Ventricle , Left Ventricle