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Shape of the Heart (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Interesting, but this isn't an entire heart, is it? Only half? Or isn't a human heart? Human hearts have separate left and right pairs of chambers which pump oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood separately. Or am I mistaken?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Isn't that why there are 2 loops at the bottom? One for the left and one for the right?

[–] repungnant_canary 5 points 1 month ago

human heart anatomical drawing

Considering this picture of a whole heart you are probably correct

[–] assassinatedbyCIA 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just assumed that they dissected through the heart to unfold it. In humans the heart is ‘compact’ and there’s no real way to unfold it without cutting through cardiac muscle but, the heart embryologically develops from a tube that folds over itself so you can theoretically ‘unfold’ it.