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IT has been found that 9 per cent of 124 healthy soldiers and 26 per cent of 53 healthy high-school girls possess abnormally movable hearts. The criterion of movability taken was the displacement of heart apex due to change of body posture from standing to right lateral positions plus the displacement due to change from standing to left lateral positions. Frequency distribution as regards the movability is shown in the following table:
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OSAWA, S. Abnormal Movability of the Heart. Nature 131, 241 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131241a0
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