CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

FUNCTION:

• responsible for transporting materials throughout the entire body
• Transports nutrients, water & oxygen to your billions of cells
• It also carries away wastes such as carbon dioxide that cells produce

ROLE OF THE SYSTEM:

• the heart, blood and blood vessels work together to service the cells of the body.
• Using the network of arteries, veins and capillaries....
• blood carries carbon dioxide to the lungs (for exhalation) and picks up oxygen.

PROCESS OF THE SYSTEM

• It consists of the heart and the blood vessels running through the entire body
• The arteries carry blood away from the heart; the veins carry it back to the heart

DISEASES OR ILLNESSES

• Leaukima A Cancer of the blood-forming tissues characterized by a large increase in the number of...
• white blood cells (leukocytes) in the circulation or bone marrow.
• Congestive heart failure, Heart failure resulting in the accumulation of fluid in the lungs and other body tissues.
• It is related mainly to salt and water retention in the tissues rather than directly to reduced blood flow.
• Blood pools in the veins because the heart does not pump efficiently enough to allow it to return