Your heart is a muscle organ that acts like a pump to continuously send blood throughout your body.

Your heart is at the the center of your circulatory system. This system consists of a network of blood vessels, such as arteries, veins and capillaries. These blood vessels carry to and from all areas of your body.Capillaries- So small only one red blood cell can fit through it at a time. Smallest.Arteries-any of the muscular-walled tubes forming part of the circulation system by which blood (mainly that which has been oxygenated) is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body.Veins- ny of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying mainly oxygen-depleted blood towards the heart.

An electrical system regulates your heart and uses electronic signals to contact the hearts walls. when the valves contract, blood is pumped into your circulatory system. A system of inlet and outlet valves in your heart chambers-Works to ensure that blood flows in the right direction.

Your heart is vital to your health and nearly everything that goes on in your body, without the hearts pumping action, blood cant circulate throughout your body.

Your blood carries the oxygen and nutrients that your organs need to work normally. Blood also carries carbon dioxide, a waste product to your lungs to be passed out of your body and into the air.

A healthy heart supplies the areas of your body with the right amount of blood at the rate needed to work nomrally. If disease or injury weakens your heart, your body organs wont receive enough blood to work normally.