Heat from our constantly beating heart should kill us! Rub your two hands together and feel the heat. With each heartbeat, the muscle movement creates friction as it expands and contracts, pressing against other tissues in the chest cavity. This friction generates heat. So why aren’t we dead from an overheated heart. Because our heart is located within a two-layered sack (the pericardial sac)...
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