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    The Circulatory System

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    by the blood through the arteries, capillaries, and veins and back to the heart. In humans and the higher vertebrates, the heart is made up of four chambers the right and left auricles, or atria, and the right and left ventricles. The right side of the heart pumps oxygen-poor blood from the cells of the body back to the lungs for new oxygen; the left side of the heart receives blood rich in oxygen from the lungs and pumps it through the arteries to the various parts of the body. Circulation begins

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    The heart and three type of blood vessels which are the arteries, veins, and capillaries are components of the cardiovascular system. The artery transfers blood out of the heart. The veins transfers blood toward the heart. Capillaries is the site of exchange with the blood or air sacs. The heart helps pump blood through the entire human body. There are two circulatory routes the pulmonary (deoxygenated) and systemic (oxygenated) circulation. The heart is located in the thoracic cavity. The pericardium

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    Blood and Digestion

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    Blood a journey through the body. You might find yourself asking, what does blood have to do with digestion, respiration and circulation? Hopefully, after the presentation all of your questions will be answered. When a person thinks of digestion they usually think about what happens in the stomach. A lot has happened to digest the food way before it gets to the stomach. It starts in the mouth or oral cavity. It is a process called mechanical digestion. First, Mastication begins. Mastication

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    The blood that does not cross the foramen ovale into the left atrium is emptied into the right ventricle which is then pumped into the pulmonary artery to be carried to the lungs. The third fetal shunt is encountered; the ductus arteriosus allows blood to be shunted from the pulmonary artery to the aorta and systemic arteries following. Blood that does go to the lungs are returned by the pulmonary veins to the left atrium

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    the heart, the lungs, and the blood vessels work together to form the circle part of the circulatory system. The pumping of the heart forces the blood on its journey. The body’s circulatory system really has three parts: pulmonary circulation, coronary circulation, and systemic circulation. Each part must be working independently in order for them to all work together. However, when one of the parts of the circulatory system does not

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    are: chemical, light, sound, heat and electrical. When looking at our bodies, we know that we need energy to help our bodies to function and the energy that we use in our body is chemical. The reason for this is that the energy help circulate the blood through in our bodies as it carries the oxygen to help with breathing and for the growth and repair for new of damaged cells in our bodies. Also the energy helps to transfer information in out nerve cell to help us respond the environment about us

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    2009, the advertisements Skechers provided promised: increased muscle strength, higher blood circulation, and a significant height increase. These

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    parabiosis, two mice are surgically joined, such that they develop a shared blood circulation with rapid and continuous exchange of cells and soluble factors at physiological levels through their common circulatory system (Wright et al., 2001). The pair of animals may be the same age (isochronic parabionts) or different ages (heterochronic parabionts). Because parabiotic mice are connected solely through their common circulation, parabiosis is a powerful model to determine whether circulating factors

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    system based on the fact that blood has to circulate to all of the other systems to help keep tissues and organs functioning. The organ of the cardiovascular system is the heart and the system also has arteries veins, and capillaries which are the blood vessels. The main tissues that are in the cardiovascular system are the epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, nervous tissue, and connective tissue. The cells that are associated with this system are red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and then

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    The Effects of Smoking Smoking is a silent killer. Smoking is the process of breathing in smoke from burning cigarette, tobacco and weed, which goes into the lungs, bloodstream, and brain thereby causing serious damages to our health. Smoking does many dangerous things to the body of both smokers and nonsmokers that people are not aware of due to lack of education and social influence. Nonsmokers can also be affected just by inhaling the air filled with smoke from smokers. So even if I don’t smoke

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