Abstract
The heart constitutes together with the blood vessels the cardiovascular system, which has the task of transporting blood in the body. In this system the heart acts as a cyclically working pump and as a blood reservoir.
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Sachse, F.B. (2004). 6. Cardiac Anatomy. In: Computational Cardiology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25926-8_6
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