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the art of negotiating with the only muscle that never agreed to take a break.
means The branch of medicine devoted to the study, diagnosis, and treatment of the heart and its disorders.
from From the Greek kardia, "heart," joined to -logia, "the study of." Kardia is an ancient word, possibly related to the Latin cor (also "heart") and ultimately to the same deep Indo-European root that gives English "heart" itself — a cousinship across languages that all kept the beating thing close to the center of their words. The -logy suffix is the same one that quietly attaches itself to biology, geology, and every other field that turned its watching into a discipline.
- first ekg
- Won Einthoven a 1924 Nobel Prize
- daily output
- Heart pumps about 2,000 gallons every day
- own power
- Heart has its own electrical pacemaker cells
- open at last
- First successful heart surgery happened in 1896
- broken literally
- Stress can mimic heart attacks: takotsubo syndrome
mayo clinic heart center — rochester, minnesota facility performing ~15,000 cardiac procedures annually since 1889
brigham and women's hospital — boston teaching hospital with ~700 cardiologists performing pioneering cardiac research and procedures