a b West, J. B. (30 May 2014). "Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology" (PDF). AJP: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 307 (2): L121–L128. doi: 10.1152/ajplung.00123.2014. PMID 24879053. S2CID 5656712. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2019. Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body – 6. Surface Markings of the Thorax". Bartleby.com. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010 . Retrieved 18 October 2010. aorta (say: ay-OR-tah) : The aorta is the major blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.

Wiseman, Nigel; Ye, Feng (1998). A practical dictionary of Chinese medicine (1sted.). Brookline, Mass.: Paradigm Publications. p.260. ISBN 978-0-912111-54-4. Rogers, Flaws, Bob (2007). Statements of fact in traditional Chinese medicine (3rded.). Boulder, Colo.: Blue Poppy Press. p.47. ISBN 978-0-936185-52-1. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021 . Retrieved 16 August 2020. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) involuntary (say: in-VOL-un-tair-ee) muscle:You don't have any say over what this kind of muscle does and when. It just does its thing and works without you even thinking about it. Your heart is an involuntary muscle, which is how it keeps beating all day and night. Other involuntary muscles help digest food and are found in your stomach and intestines. Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.a b Talley, Nicholas J.; O'Connor, Simon (2013). Clinical Examination. Churchill Livingstone. pp.76–82. ISBN 978-0-7295-4198-5.

a b c Longo, Dan; Fauci, Anthony; Kasper, Dennis; Hauser, Stephen; Jameson, J.; Loscalzo, Joseph (2011). Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (18ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional. p.1811. ISBN 978-0-07-174889-6. Sellmer, Sven (2004), "The Heart in the Ŗg veda", in Piotr Balcerowicz; Marek Mejor (eds.), Essays in Indian Philosophy, Religion and Literature, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, pp.71–83, ISBN 978-81-208-1978-8, archived from the original on 6 December 2016 The earliest descriptions of the coronary and pulmonary circulation systems can be found in the Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon, published in 1242 by Ibn al-Nafis. [95] In his manuscript, al-Nafis wrote that blood passes through the pulmonary circulation instead of moving from the right to the left ventricle as previously believed by Galen. [96] His work was later translated into Latin by Andrea Alpago. [97] The seal script glyph for "heart" ( Middle Chinese sim) Elize Ryd making a heart sign at a concert in 2018

a b Grimm, Kurt A.; Lamont, Leigh A.; Tranquilli, William J.; Greene, Stephen A.; Robertson, Sheilah A. (2015). Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia. John Wiley & Sons. p.418. ISBN 978-1-118-52620-0. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016. mitral (say: MY-truhl) valve: The mitral valve lets blood flow from the left atrium to the left ventricles.