Meet Your Heart · Heart
In the chest between the lungs, behind the breastbone.
Your heart sits in the middle of your chest, between your lungs and behind your breastbone — not on the left, as most people think. It's tilted, so its tip points left. That's the beat you feel.
The heart sits near the center of the chest in a region called the mediastinum, slightly left of the body's midline. It lives inside a protective sac called the pericardium, shielded in front by the breastbone and ribs.
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