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Home come the walls of the atria are thinner than the walls of the ventricles?

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Atria: it's the same reason why Arnold Schwarzenegger got bigger than I did when we went to the same gym. He like the ventricles was working out harder and doing more work.

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Answered 5/13/2015

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