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The Blood
© Jim Swan
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Components of the Cardiovascular System
Heart –pumps bloodBlood vessels:arteries –carry blood to organs and tissuesveins –return blood to the heartcapillaries allow for transport to and fromtissuesBlood -?The fluid medium for transport.
Unlike the heart and the blood vessels, which are organs, blood is a complextissue. It is one of the connective tissues based on its derivation, frommesenchyme cells, and its structure, which contains the intercellular matrixknown as the plasma.
 
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Composition of Blood
See Marieb, Figure 1
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Plasma -the blood’s liquid portionwater 91+%solutes -nutrients, wastes, blood gases,electrolytes, regulatory moleculesproteins -albumin, fibrinogens, globulins
55%
Plasma is the intercellular matrix of the blood.
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