Is the heart on the left or right side of the body?

Answer 1

For most people, the heart is ALMOST at the centre but a little to the left because the left-hand lung has only two instead of three chambers.

There are SOME people, however, who have different arrangements.

Some have all their internal organs on the 'wrong' side of their body - a condition known as 'situs inversus' (link 1). This means that their right lung has two chambers, and their heart is slightly to the right (and for that matter their heart, spleen, stomach, and everything else normally on the left). These people often don't know about their condition, so although the estimated incidence is about 0.01%, it may be higher.

Even rarer are people with NO asymmetry in their bodies. They may have two stomachs or none. Needless to say, such people usually do not live. But it happens.

Answer 2

Left

Answer 3

The heart is in the middle of the body, pointing slightly to the left

Answer 4

The heart is situated in the center of the thorax leaning on the diaphragm with it's tip tilted to the left side. That's why the left lung only has only two lobes, whereas the right one has 3.

Answer 5

left

Answer 6

left

Answer 7

It's on the left.

Answer 8

left

Answer 9

Slight left, just put your hand over the upper part of your body and where the resonance of the pumping of the heart is louder that is where the heart is located.

Answer 10

It's kind of in the middle, but it's kind of at an angle in our chests so that the part that beats the hardest (the ventricles) are more on the left side.

That's YOUR left side as you look down, not your left as you look in a mirror.