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Weighing in at 10 ounces, the blood-filled muscle called the heart has become the universal symbol of love. In under a minute, your heart can pump blood to every cell in your body. And over the course of a day, about 100,000 heart beats shuttle 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood many times through about 60,000 miles of branching blood vessels that link together the cells of our organs and body parts. That's a hefty job for a fist-sized muscle.

The heart is about the size of your fist. It lies on its' left ventricle along the diagram forming a point (called the apex). It takes up enough space that the left lung is slightly smaller than the right lung because 2/3 of the heart is located on the left side of the body.

The left lung contains the cardiac notch which contains the apex.

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