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Look up: Heart

  1. Heart
    the large muscle which pumps blood around the circulatory system
    Found on http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfac

  2. heart
    Muscular pump which circulates the blood.
    Found on http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gl

  3. Heart
    The heart is a muscular organ used to maintain circulation of blood through an animal.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/B5

  4. Heart
    The heart is the muscle in vertebrates which pumps blood around the body.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/E1

  5. Heart
    The heart of most animals and birds are used in cooking. Some say that the best hearts are calf's or lamb's hearts. Hearts are sometimes stuffed with breadcrumbs and herbs or used in making gravies.
    Found on http://www.nutribase.com/fishmeat.shtml

  6. heart
    [n] - a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom 2. [n] - a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal) 3. [n] - the locus of feelings and intuitions 4. [n] - the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs 5. [n] - the courage to carry on 6. [n] - an inclination or tendency of a certain kind 7. [n] - a playing card in the major suit of hearts
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  7. Heart
    Organ that pumps blood.
    Found on http://www.longman.co.uk/tt_secsci/resou

  8. Heart
    The heart is the organ that pumps blood round the body. It is about the size of a fist, behind the breastbone / sternum, and nearly central but slightly to the left. It has four chambers, four valves to prevent flows in the wrong direction, and muscles. See Atrium, Ventricle, Valve, and Coronary arteries.
    Found on http://www.bcpa.co.uk/glossary.htm

  9. Heart
    The organ which pumps blood around the body.
    Found on http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/glossary.as

  10. Heart
    An organ which pumps blood
    Found on http://www.makingsenseofhealth.org.uk/de

  11. Heart
    The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood around the body.
    Found on http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/glossary/

  12. heart
    A hollow muscular organ that pumps blood around the body
    Found on http://www.generalandmedical.com/glossar

  13. Heart
    Heart: The muscle that pumps blood received from veins into arteries throughout the body. It is positioned in the chest behind the sternum (breastbone; in front of the trachea, esophagus, and aorta; and above the diaphragm muscle that separates the chest and abdominal cavities. The normal heart is about the size of a closed fist, and weighs about 1 …
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  14. heart
    the inner layers of wood which,in the growing tree,have ceased to contain living cells and in which the reserve materials(e.g.starch)have been removed or converted into more durable substances Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • the central portion of a log,including the pith and any associated defective(juvenile)wood Category: agriculture, fish…
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  15. Heart
    Heart (härt) noun [ Middle English harte , herte , heorte , Anglo-Saxon heorte ; akin to Old Saxon herta , OFies. hirte , Dutch hart , Old High German herza , German herz , Icelandic hjarta , Swedish hjerta , Goth. haírtō , Lithuanian szirdis , Russian serdtse , Ir. cridhe , Latin …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/23

  16. Heart
    Heart (härt) transitive verb To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit. [ Obsolete] « My cause is hearted ; thine hath no less reason.» Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/23

  17. Heart
    Heart intransitive verb To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/23

  18. heart
    To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit. "My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason." (Shak) ... To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage. ... 1. <anatomy> A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. "Why does my blood thus muster to my heart!" (Shak) …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?h

  19. heart
    pump noun the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; `he stood still, his heart thumping wildly`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  20. heart
    bosom noun the locus of feelings and intuitions; `in your heart you know it is true`; `her story would melt your bosom`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  21. heart
    noun a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it; `he led the queen of hearts`; `hearts were trumps`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. heart
    noun a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); `a five-pound beef heart will serve six`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  23. heart
    spunk noun the courage to carry on; `he kept fighting on pure spunk`; `you haven`t got the heart for baseball`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  24. Heart
    The `heart` is a muscular organ responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in the annelids, mollusks, and arthropods. The average human heart beating at 72 BPM, will beat approximately 2.5 billion times during a lifetime of 66 years.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart

  25. Heart
    The `heart` is a muscular organ responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in the annelids, mollusks, and arthropods. The average human heart beating at 72 BPM, will beat approximately 2.5 billion times during a lifetime of 66 years.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart

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21 November 2008

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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