• Situated in the rib cage of chest on the left side
• Embedded in lungs • Size of heart is equal to the size of clenched fist • Connected with many big (giant )blood vessels • Made up of involuntary muscle • Heart starts beating from 4th month of IU life. • Duration of one heart beat is 0.8sec. • 4 Chambers of Heart • Auricles to receive blood • Ventricles to pump blood • Left side oxygenated blood • Right side deoxygenated blood