From the 1998 Holiday Lectures — Of Hearts and Hypertension: Blazing Genetic Trails

Heart Function

The job of the human heart—in fact of all vertebrate hearts—is to pump oxygenated blood throughout the cells of the body and to return deoxygenated blood to lungs or gills for replenishment.

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