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    The Circulatory System

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    The circulatory system is the system in the body that is transports nutrients and gases throughout the body to its corresponding cells. The body however needs the heart in order to pump blood and the blood vessels that will transport it throughout the body. According to Martini (2012) “The blood is a connective tissue fluid that contains cells suspended in a fluid matrix”(p. 653). The blood is in charge of multiple things. Blood stabilizes the body temperature when it consumes the heat that is released

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    The human body needs oxygen to sustain itself. The human respiratory system is a group of organs that take in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide. The main organ of the respiratory system is the lungs. Red blood cells collect the oxygen from the lungs and carry it to the parts of the body where it is needed. The human respiratory system allows us to breath by air traveling down the oesophagus to the trachea which branches into the Bronchi then branches further into the smaller Bronchioles that End

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    1.The fluid surrounding tissue cells is called? interstitial fluid.2.What are the functions performed by the circulatory system?-The circulatory system supplies oxygen and nutrients to our body by working with the respiratory system.- It also helps carry waste and carbon dioxide out of the body3.What is the fluid type that holds many of the human body fluids? Intracellular fluid4. Name fluids that are nearly identical in content except for proteins. Plasma and interstitial fluids.5.What function

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    The earthworm has a closed circulatory system. Which means that it has the blood closed at all times within the vessels. Three main vessels supply the blood to the organs. These organs are ventral blood vessels, dorsal blood vessels, and aortic arches. The ventral blood vessels carry blood to the worm’s body. Dorsal blood vessels carry blood to front of the worm. Kind of like a human heart, the aortic arches pump blood into the dorsal and ventral blood vessels. Earthworms breathe though out their

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    The Circulatory System The circulatory system is one of the most important systems in the human body. It consists of the heart and blood vessels. It is what makes the blood in our body go round. The blood carries oxygen, nutrients and hormones and takes them to where they are needed and removes the waste products like carbon dioxide. The circulatory system nourishes every cell, tissue, organ and organ system in the body. There are approximately ten pints of blood

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    The Circulatory System      The circulatory system in anatomy and physiology is the course taken 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

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    The study of the heart and circulatory system, together referred to as the cardiovascular system, has been a topic of interest for many centuries. As one of the most complex and sophisticated systems in the human body, the journey towards our current understanding of it’s form and function has been a long one. Even cardiology, the study of the heart and circulatory system is still relatively in its infancy as a medical specialty. The heart and circulatory system were largely explored by William

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    The circulatory system (also known as the cardiovascular system) is responsible for respiration (transporting oxygen and removing carbon dioxide from cells), nutrition (carrying nutrients from digested food substances to the cells of the body), waste removal (disposing cellular waste products and poisons that may have been consumed during the digestion process), immunity (fighting against infectious agents such as pathogens), cellular communication (ensuring that that the transport and the function

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    The fetal circulatory system is different in the way that it sends and receives blood throughout the body. The fetus is dependent on the mother while in the womb for blood circulation. The fetus will receive blood through the placenta, attached to the umbilical card, which sends the oxygenated blood to the fetus’s lungs. Through this process the fetus receives all nutrients and oxygen it needs to survive. Waste from the fetus is then sent back to the mother through the umbilical cord and placenta

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    to explore and visually get to see how the heart and the Circulatory system works. “The cardiovascular system consists of the heart and blood vessels circulating blood throughout the body, delivering water, oxygen, and nutrients to cells, and removing waste products such as carbon dioxide blood vessels working together to is system”. (Wiley) And now for the Circulatory system is also a major function of our body, “The basic circulatory system of vertebrate animals, which are those with a backbone,

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