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... blood in an artery ( or , in the liver , the portal vein ) entering an organ or organ component and a vein leaving it show how much of any substance is added to or removed from the blood that flows through its vessels . 10 Similarly one ...
... blood in an artery ( or , in the liver , the portal vein ) entering an organ or organ component and a vein leaving it show how much of any substance is added to or removed from the blood that flows through its vessels . 10 Similarly one ...
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... blood volume flowing into them . Others , like tendons , have little blood supply . The need for specific substances also differs from organ to organ . Iron is necessary to the bone marrow which forms red blood cells ; iodine is an ...
... blood volume flowing into them . Others , like tendons , have little blood supply . The need for specific substances also differs from organ to organ . Iron is necessary to the bone marrow which forms red blood cells ; iodine is an ...
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... blood toward the head of the organism . The heart of a fish is little more than such a straight muscular tube in which the blood is carried from the aorta to the gills , for aeration , and then circulated through the blood vessels ...
... blood toward the head of the organism . The heart of a fish is little more than such a straight muscular tube in which the blood is carried from the aorta to the gills , for aeration , and then circulated through the blood vessels ...
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