Why ventricle have thicker walls-

The ventricles of the heart have thicker muscularwalls than the atria. This is because blood is pumped out of the heart at greater pressure from these chambers ...

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Why ventricles have thicker walls?

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Ventricles have thicker walls than auricles because they have to pump blood to different organs and the pressure with which the blood flows through them is more than the auricles. Therefore, the walls are thicker in ventricles than in auricles.

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