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    A Fantastic Voyage Anatomy of Digestive, Circulatory & Urinary Systems This is me, Beth Cooper. I have been shrunk again to the size of 8 microns only. In my mini-sub, I am now entering into the mouth of a 55 years old man. He just had a lot of junk food including Hamburger, French Fries and Root beer (which is my carrier as well). It is amazing to see that the digestion process has already started in the mouth of this man. The food has been broken down in to swallow able portions during chewing

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    Changing position of the body changes how hard the heart has to work to overcome gravity and other forces. When moving from a lying, horizontal position to the standing, vertical one, a decrease in the effective circulating blood volume occurs in the circulatory system. This is a result of venous pooling and increased capillary filtration. That means when the blood circulation is in the opposite direction, the heart has to do more works to compensate the change in position, which is in a direction opposite

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    Cardiology: Your Heart

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    wouldn't have an organ in our body that pumps blood around the body. The heart does one thing: it forces blood around the body by all the parts of the heart working together. And beats more than two million times a day. The heart is part of the Circulatory or Cardiovascular system that is very important for your body. If you didn't have the body system you would die. To keep your heart health,

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    muscles aid in digestion; cardiac muscles pump blood throughout the body. Skeletal is attached to bone; Smooth is located in the digestive system and in the walls of blood vessels; cardiac is only in the heart. 6. Explain the structure of the circulatory system (7.L.1.4---not tested, but good practice) Answer: Heart—pump; veins—transport blood to heart; arteries—transport blood away from heart; capillaries—exchange

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    The Human Muscular System Essay

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    means that all of your body systems need each other to work and make your body function correctly. Your muscles need protein, nutrients, and oxygen to move and work. Then the circulatory system carries those essential particles to your muscles from the digestive and respiratory systems. That is when your circulatory system carries the leftover waste back to the original systems to be discharged from your body. Your nervous

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    liters of blood that the blood vessels transport. The cardiovascular system is transporting oxygen, nutrients, hormones and cellular waste products through the body. The cardiovascular system is powered by the hardest working organ the heart. Circulatory Loops Pulmonary circulation transports deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs where the blood picks up oxygen and returns

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    Navigation of blood vessels is an essential part in reaching a lesion or a vessel segment for treatment. Such task is achieved using an endovascular device. The circulatory system being tortuous, improvements to endovascular devices are being investigated. Here the process involved in improving this medical field was by combining two technologies together: endovascular devices and ionic electroactive polymers (i-EAP). Medical procedures such as angioplasty, coronary and peripheral, atherectomy

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    Disallowance was the United States' eighteenth Amendment, banning the drinking, production, or offer of inebriating mixers. Liquor use declined forcefully in the 1920's, yet numerous individuals disregarded the boycott and delivered liquor wrongfully in their homes. In 1933, it was contended that the eighteenth Amendment was took away occupations and energized wrongdoing, in this manner Prohibition was revoked. Since 1933, liquor utilization has expanded drastically. In the 1970's numerous states

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    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 in the surfaces of the Lungs in Alveoli that Diffuse through thin membrane into the Circulatory System. When humans breathe the diaphragm contracts and relaxes. The intercostal muscles between the ribs help to change the internal pressure by lifting and relaxing the ribcage in rhythm with the diaphragm. Under normal resting conditions,

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    The heart is a muscular organ in charge of pumping blood to all parts of the body. As the heart contracts, the blood is forced out through blood vessels and begins to follow a specific pathway. The blood makes it way through pulmonary circulation (to the lungs) and then through systemic circulation (the rest of the body). Deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium through the superior and inferior vena cava. It then is transported to the right ventricle through the right atrioventricular valve (tricuspid

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