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Your ribs are the bones that protect your heart.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe rib cage and the sternum helps to protect the heart and its surrounding organs from damage
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What structure protects the heart?
The immediate protector of the heart is the pericardium, which is the sac that surrounds the heart. The heart is also protected by muscle, bone, and skin.
How does the skeleton protect the heart?
the heart is situated just behind and slightly left of the breastbone, from this bone arises the ribs, the bones that go around the body trunk and defines the thorax. This anatomy is how the skeleton protects the heart.
How does the pelvis protect the heart?
It doesn't. The sternum protects the heart.
Where is the snakes heart?
A snakes heart is inside a snakes body. Its heart is near its head. the ribs protects the heart only. but it still protects every part of the body.
What are the Heart and the lungs are surrounded and protected by?
the heart is surrounded by the pericardium. There is the visceral pericardium which is closest to the heart organ and the parietal pericardium which is the outer lining. The lungs are surrounded by the pleural membrane. There is the visceral pleura which is located closest to the lung and the parietal pleura which is the outer lining. The heart and lungs are protected from external damage by the ribcage. The sternal bone is one of the hardest bones in the body and this bone protects the heart from damage.
What bone projects the brain and the heart?
No single bone protects both the brain an the heart.
What bone protects the heart ventrally?
your ribs protect your heart
What bone protects the heart anteriorly?
Sternum
What bone protects the body?
Ribcage protects lungs, heart etc Skull protects brain.
What bone protects the heart and anchors the ribs?
The sternum, also known as the breastbone, protects the heart and provides support for the ribs by anchoring them in place. Its structure helps safeguard the vital organs within the chest cavity.
What bone protects your heart and where it is?
Answer:The sternum protects your heart=and its in the middle of your rib cage=
What bone protecs you heat and your lungs?
Ther is not one single bone that protects both organs. Your sternum protects your heart. Your ribs form a rib cage which protects your lungs.
What skeletal structure protects the heart?
The ribs, I guess. She guessed right. The ribcage is the collection of bones that protects the organs of the thorax including the heart. More specifically the sternum, the "breast bone" directly covers and protects the heart.
What skeletal bone protects the heart?
The rib cage and the sternum helps to protect the heart and its surrounding organs.
What bone protects your heart and stomache?
Your rib cage protects your heart and stomach,because the rib cage is kind of a cage and when you get hit there,it dosent hurt your organs but it can damage the rib cage.
What bone that protects eyeball?
The Orbital bone protects the eyes
What part of the body does the ribs protect?
The ribs protect your lungs (along with the sternum, which protects the heart).
