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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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The heart pumps blood through these vessels so that the blood can carry with it oxygen and nutrients that the cells need or take away waste that the cells do not need.
Sickle Cell Disorders are a group of inherited disorders of the blood in which children can have periods of intense pain caused by blockage of the blood vessels and lack of oxygen of the tissues.
The heart is the muscle that pumps blood filled with oxygen and nutrients through the blood vessels to the body tissues.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The retina is fed by a network of tiny blood vessels and in diabetic retinopathy the walls of these blood vessels become fragile and start to break, leaking blood around them.
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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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As the blue blood flows through the main pulmonary artery to the lungs the pulmonary artery branches to smaller and smaller pulmonary arteries and then those branch into very tiny blood vessels called capillaries.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The newly formed blood vessels bring the blood and oxygen that encourage tumor growth; they also provide the means for cancer cells to travel to distant organs and form new tumors.
Blood types are based on differences in molecules (proteins and carbohydrates) on the surface of red blood cells.
Cord blood contains high concentrations of stem cells needed to produce new blood cells.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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This is because the lungs contain numerous blood vessels and the inhaled nerve agent can therefore rapidly diffuse into the blood circulation and thus reach the target organs.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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The redness is caused by dilation of the blood vessels in the skin, which allow more blood to flow and pool under the surface of the skin.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: A state of adaptation by the body to generalized drought, when there is not enough water to fill all the blood vessels that diffuse water into the vital cells.
These symptoms occur because blood vessels in the area dilate to bring in extra white blood cells to eat the bacteria and other foreign particles gathering at the site of injury.
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