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What is the term used for the system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood circulated throughout the body?
What is the term used for the system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood circulated throughout the body?
- Open circulatory system
- Pulmonary circulation
- Cardiovascular system (correct)
- Vascular system
What does the term 'vascular system' consist of?
What does the term 'vascular system' consist of?
- Arteries, arterioles, and capillaries
- Heart and blood vessels (correct)
- Large elastic arteries and large veins
- Network of blood vessels and venules
What does it mean that the circulatory system is closed in vertebrates?
What does it mean that the circulatory system is closed in vertebrates?
- Blood is pumped by multiple hearts
- Blood is not circulated to the extremities
- Blood never leaves the network of blood vessels (correct)
- Blood flows freely in the body cavity
What is the term for the system that has two divisions, systemic circulation and pulmonary circulation?
What is the term for the system that has two divisions, systemic circulation and pulmonary circulation?
Which term is used for the system that consists of the heart and blood vessels?
Which term is used for the system that consists of the heart and blood vessels?