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The Human Circulatory System

The circulatory system document describes the major components of the human circulatory system including the heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and blood. It explains that the heart pumps blood through arteries which have elastic, muscular walls to keep blood under pressure. The document also outlines that veins have thinner, less elastic walls than arteries and use valves and gravity to return blood to the heart. Finally, it notes that capillaries are the sites where gas and nutrient exchange occurs between blood plasma and body tissues.

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The Human Circulatory System

The circulatory system document describes the major components of the human circulatory system including the heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, and blood. It explains that the heart pumps blood through arteries which have elastic, muscular walls to keep blood under pressure. The document also outlines that veins have thinner, less elastic walls than arteries and use valves and gravity to return blood to the heart. Finally, it notes that capillaries are the sites where gas and nutrient exchange occurs between blood plasma and body tissues.

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Dennis Nabor Muñoz, RN,RM
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The

Human
Circulatory
System

Heart

Major Veins and


Arteries

Blood Vessels
HEART
Arteries

Veins

Arterioles

Venules

Capillaries

Blood Vessels
Arteries

Elastic, muscular walls


Keep blood under pressure
Nerve signals can make arteries
constrict or dilate

Veins

Thinner, less elastic, less muscle than


arteries
Lower pressure than arteries
Valves and gravity aid flow back to the
heart

Capillaries

One cell thick


Where transfer of gases and nutrients
takes place

Blood
Plasma (55% of whole blood)

Water with dissolved substances


Proteins, sugars, amino acids, salts,
hormones

Variations in concentration
Metabolic imbalances
Kidney problems

Cells (45% of whole blood)

Erythrocytes (red blood cells)


Hemoglobin carries oxygen

Leukocytes (white blood cells)


fight infection

Platelets

Responsible of clot formation


(coagulation)

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