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Did you know that the heart may be understood as a single, continuous band of muscle that twists and coils? ❤️
Spanish cardiologist **Francisco Torrent Guasp** spent decades studying the anatomy of the heart and proposed that the ventricular muscle forms a continuous muscular band arranged in a helical shape.
His work helped transform our understanding of how the heart contracts and twists to pump blood—and how it untwists to help fill itself again.
A fascinating example of how rethinking anatomy can change our understanding of one of the most important organs in the human bo
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