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the only muscle that builds your whole body before it builds itself.
means The plural of heart — the muscular organs that pump blood through living bodies, and by extension the seat of emotion, courage, and affection in each of us.
from From Old English 'heorte,' a word with deep Germanic roots (compare German 'Herz,' Dutch 'hart') and ultimately tied to the Proto-Indo-European root '*kerd-,' which also gives us Latin 'cor' (think 'cordial,' 'courage') and Greek 'kardia' (think 'cardiac'). So nearly every word we use for the heart, across many languages, traces back to one ancient beating sound.
- first organ
- forms and beats weeks before a brain exists
- daily count
- beats around 100,000 times every single day
- own current
- generates electricity strong enough to spark its next beat
- isolated beat
- a heart keeps pumping outside the body if oxygenated
- broken heart
- grief can physically stun the muscle, mimicking attack
hearts card game — trick-taking game where players avoid taking hearts and the queen of spades, popular since the 1880s
heart of midlothian fc — scottish football club based in edinburgh, founded 1874, rivals with hibernian fc