12/11/2015
"Bleeder", by Walter Oltmann 2007.
Creative personification of our body's vascular system :)
Try to find the arteries you have learned, for example the circle of willis as the head!
Blood moves through the circulatory system as a result of being pumped out by the heart. Blood leaving the heart through the arteries is saturated with oxygen. The arteries break down into smaller and smaller branches in order to bring oxygen and other nutrients to the cells of the body's tissues and organs.
As blood moves through the capillaries, the oxygen and other nutrients move out into the cells, and waste matter from the cells moves into the capillaries. As the blood leaves the capillaries, it moves through the veins, which become larger and larger to carry the blood back to the heart and to the lungs, where it gets reloaded with oxygen.
This way our body can continue to survive another day!
