Cardiac Function Quotes

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

The human heart is my school.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.

This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.