Moooooom, NCD is leaking again!
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?
Isn’t that why there are 2 loops at the bottom? One for the left and one for the right?
Considering this picture of a whole heart you are probably correct
There are two “halves” but they’re nowhere near symmetric. The two parts nested inside one another in (a) are the “halves”.
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.
Look up embryological development of the heart to see why
That’s even better. Two blood vessels that fuse and twist.
Why did they name the left and right atrium backwards? That seems unnecessarily confusing.
It’s only backwards because you’re looking at it from the outside from the front. When it’s in you, the left is on your left.
I just realized I’m stupid, thank you
A true inflection point no doubt
welcome to the club bro
Why does it look like a foreskin?
Who knew the heart is a penis? Blessed be
🎵 Last Christmas, I gave her my heart 🎵
The foreskin is the heart of the penis
Unless you’re very talented, that somebody else’s cock stuck up your back
It’s dicks all the way down
Cause it is a tube. All Floppy Tubus do.
What happened to your foreskin?
Mayas knowing it since centuries, due their life experiments.
Naaaaah let’s not
Origami origami ᵒʳⁱᵍᵃᵐⁱ
Callback to our primordial tube-hearted fish origin
I wonder if a heart could still beat/function when it’s unrolled in this way 🤔
It depends on how fresh
the killit is.No. It needs to squeeze against itself to move blood to and from chambers.
Could it not just sorta flex the tube? Like couldn’t one part of the tube pull on or press off of the next?
As someone who flexes the tube very often, I would guess that the heart would start pumping unwanted fluids
No. This diagram doesn’t show how they got the heart to unravel like that. There’s a layer or wrapping around the heart and internal connective tissues that holds the heart in its traditional state. I’d imagine if the got the muscles of a unrolled heart to contract it would just fold or bind at points. But definitely wouldn’t pump anything.
I was wondering something similar. Maybe this is an innovative approach to heart surgery.
Yes, in the way that Mengele was innovative in the medical field.
… I see I’m not the only person with intrusive thoughts.
Make sure to unfold and wring out your heart after each breakup, to keep the creases from setting in too much.
That’s not the shape of my heart 🎶
🎵 And no one’s gonna bend or break me 🎵
That’s Faith of the Heart.
Shape of my Heart is a different, but equally bangin’, song.
🎵I know that diamonds mean money for this art, but that’s not the shape of my heart🎵
Thanks, I hate it
Thought it was going to turn into Saddam there for a second.
Missed opportunity
Now you’ve called it
That’s step f.
Maybe it’s a part of Saddam? Heart, foreskin, who knows.
It has
I just learned about this last night. Are we a hive mind?
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Not that I want to unroll it, but why did it “roll” up in the first place? It seems so tightly wound compared to, like, the intestines or something. Just curious.
To save space
And maybe to share muscle power between different phases of the stroke. Two muscles that evolved to pump different chambers could both work on the same chamber when they’re folded over one another. Allow them to transfer force between the layers.