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Medical Daily
Adrian Hayes

A Bone Turned Up Inside a Man's Heart, Right Where the Electrical Signals Pass Through

Cattle have a bone in the heart. So do camels and otters. Humans, the anatomy textbooks say, do not.

Then medical examiners in Virginia sliced the conduction system out of a 39-year-old man's heart, cut it into thin sections, and found one.

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