This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Open circulatory systems have been portrayed aspoorly designed systems with poor performance characteristics, lacking in adequate tissue ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There's perhaps no element of the body that captures our imagination more than the heart. We link it ...

Water and nutrients are important to keep living things alive and healthy. Animals, including humans, get these from what they eat and drink, but how do the water and nutrients get transported around ...

Pump: A Natural History of the Heart Bill Schutt Algonquin (2021) Rich in meaning and metaphor, the word ‘heart’ conjures up many images: a pump, courage, kindness, love, a suit in a deck of cards, a ...

The details are astounding," Caron adds. Instead of having arteries and veins like we do, Mosura had an "open" circulatory system, with its heart pumping blood into large internal body cavities called ...