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The main task of the cardiovascular system is to bring blood flow to within reach of billions of cells within the body, individually. There is a capillary with continuously moving blood within reach of every living cell within the body. The vascular system required to achieve this task is of an immense proportion. There are likely more “tube segments” within a single human body than there are in any man-made fluid flow system on the planet (Figs. 12.1 and 12.2).
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Zamir, M. (2016). Dynamic Pathologies. In: Hemo-Dynamics. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24103-6_12
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