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Circulatory System redirects here

There is a link in the article that points to the circulatory system but it just redirects back to the same article, this one. Amnion (talk) 16:22, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The graphic has some arteries blue and some veins red, so I removed the color coding language in the article. Also, I think the picture would be a bit nicer if the lungs were pictured to the left of the heart. AxelBoldt 03:18 31 May 2003 (UTC)

Yes, the colour codes refer to oxygenation and deoxygenation! I forgot.

Why is it nicer to have lungs on the left? What are the differences? The ones I've seen usually place it on top, probably because of the anatomy. But if there's a good reason, I can move the lung's position in the illustration too. No problem. --Menchi 03:42 31 May 2003 (UTC)

No, I think it's ok as it is. AxelBoldt 21:00 31 May 2003 (UTC)Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!

Circulation

Why is there a (good) article on the circulatory system, and a (somewhat messy) article on circulation (Physiology)? If one insist on having both, shouldn't the last one be reduced to a short definition?--Ekko 08:48, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Checking what links hkjjkll;j;ere on both articles, it seems there is enough to have two articles, one for the human.....cirulatory system, the other for animals in general. -- 70.2dick8.153.5 20:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree. That's about the same idea discussed in mammilian circulation topic below. --TheLimbicOne(talk) 21:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has gone and put some kinda hack I havent figured out in this section: just says "Hi!!!" after wats happening the header. Not at all harmful, but could do with getting rid of.

References?

The reference section needs some work. The only book referenced is rather sketchy; seems to be more about history than about medicine.

Merge

Mering affects-of-Blood-preasure-on-energy-level-or-some-other-rediculously-long-title into this article. Banana04131 01:20, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

merge: open circulatory system

Merge completed by Tarret 16:19, 2006 January 15

I'd like to either pull this info out to the article on open circulatory system or merge the open circulatory system article into here. --TheLimbicOne(talk) 17:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe. I bigger problem with the scope of the article is IMO - where is the more detailed description of the more advanced closed circulatory system, i.e. mammals and similar? That is what I expect fo find when I click the link to this article - a good overview if somewhat scetchy of heart, veins, arterys etc. That paragraph is pretty dense for laymen. Until there is a good overview of human/mammalian circulatory system I find it hard to decide whether the open circulatory system should have its own article or not. / --Habj 20:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh absolutely there's enough info on both subjects for them to be their own articles. I just don't have my hands on that info to add right now. I'm actually leaning towards pulling "open" out of here and leaving a link. Then I'll fix all article links to here that really need to go to "open" instead. If I merge, I'd mark the open section as a stub section. --TheLimbicOne(talk) 00:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mammilian circulation

All of the articles referenced in this section are stubs. Would anyone object to collecting them into this section of this article. This may enlarge this section enough to qualify as its own article. --TheLimbicOne(talk) 23:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea--Ekko 12:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stages of evolution

The systems of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals show various stages of evolution. This sentence is a bit vague. Does it mean that the systems of the animals show increasing complexity or that they how one evolved from the other? PrometheusX303 18:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Servetus info

Why is it relevant to this article that Servetus was executed for heresy? --Dcfleck 21:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to Servetus’s execution was simply a brief parenthetical digression. And given the historical significance of this particular execution, especially as it relates to the development of Western civilization's history of tolerance among those with differing beliefs and opinions, I thought it was justified. If however, this kind of digression is not considered appropriate for Wikipedia articles, then of course, it should be deleted. Being new to wikipedia am not always sure what is, and is not correct. So, I definitely welcome advice and constructive criticism. Delta x 02:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am confused why the mention of Cardiovascular system is mentioned in the beginning of the article as another word for Circulatory system when it is only one of many systems of circulation in the human body, I changed the first () marks to more often because of what my Human Biology proffessor said during class. --134.29.242.57 21:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New sections(s) - homeostasis, types of blood, types of arteries, etc.

Seems to me that while this article does a good job of defining the different types of circulatory systems, it does very little to go in-depth with them. The section on its discovery is longer than them, for Heaven's sake. So, I propose a new section dealing with the specificities of each type of circulatory system.

diagram

This article needs a diagram of the main sections of the heart... and the lung flow. The picture it has at the moment is not labeled.

I have created a tubemap of the circulatory system at http://www.magma.ca/~shawnhcorey/200710/1193774664.html . I did this because I thought it would be a fun thing to do. There are three versions of it: a small PNG, a large PNG, and a SVG. The SVG was created using Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ and has advance features; it may not be viewable with your browser. Some of it is not labeled, I couldn't label the interior of the heart, there was no room. It is a very simplistic diagram but more advance then anything I see on the page. It is copyrighted and available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic http://www.magma.ca/~shawnhcorey/cc-by-nc-nd.html . I don't know if you can use it; I am presenting it as an option. Shawncorey 04:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Circulation

So blood only flows in arteries, veins, capillaries, etc.? Then what occupies the space between blood and the skin? 63.23.47.35 22:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Usually fat, muscle, or other tissue I would expect. Unless you mean the vessel wall, which in that case, would be the vessel wall. Wafulz 23:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So when you get cut, how come fat or lymph fluids don't flow out instead of blood? QuizQuick 00:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It does - well, not fat because it's not particularly conducive to flowing. Our circulatory systems are simply extensive enough that virtually anywhere you are cut will bleed. There are, however, some exeptions - very small surface abrasions and scratches sometimes do not bleed, but instead are moist with a clear fluid: lymph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.11.85 (talk) 04:04, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When you get a skin cut, the blood coming out of it is usually from the capillaries, as many are very small. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.196.247.195 (talk) 21:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Open Circulatory System Heart

How does the heart work in the open circulatory system? Wouldn't it just pump in circles near the heart? --Gbleem 15:50, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cool

Vandalism in the "Open circulatory system" section

The section started with "HELLO!" written in big red font. I removed it, for it was clearly vandalism.--Crabby 20:52, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What does this system do?

What functions does it perform to be vital in the human body?--Josue Ramirez 23:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Jramirez23[reply]

Picture Problem

The illustration is misleading in this article. The lungs are part of the pulmonary system, not the cardiovascular system. The cardiovascular and pulmonary systems together make the cardiopulmonary system. That is why I am deleting the picture. --Savant13 16:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The lungs are part of the Respiratory System, and they play an important enough part in the Circulatory System to be included in the picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.98.50 (talk) 02:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cava

Mention what "cava" means. Jidanni 13:12, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting

Is there a reason why this page is formatted in those box-esk things, as opposed to the style of most other pages? It seems rather difficult to read without text-wrapping. GromXXVII 12:24, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why my edit

I put humans above more primitive organisms, since it probably is the most interesting species to get to know the circulatory system of. Just because the system of other species are more simple, the system of humans is still more efficiently learned by simply studying it and no else.

I also moved a lot of duplicate information to the articles Systemic and Pulmonary circulations, since it's easier to improve and correct one main article than several duplicates. Mikael Häggström 14:41, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What should this page be called?

Should the page be called the "circulatory system" or the "cardiovascular system"? Snowman (talk) 21:37, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blue Blood Misconception

Please, please, please, I beg of you, put a section stating that deoxygenated blood is not really blue, that is just the standard for diagrams that has been used for centuries. I train science teachers and hear this misconception all of the time. I'd be happy to offer my misconception podcast on this subject as one reference for this section: http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/misconceptions On that page, I also have a picture of red food coloring viewed through diluted milk (very similar to skin) and it appears blue. Scitch (talk) 20:45, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blue blood

Just to let you know that the concern of yours has a place on Wikipedia. --Ludvikus (talk) 13:23, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But it's only a disambiguation page. My recollection is that it's a racist term or notion as in "blue blooded American." As such, though, it has no place in a science article. Why not start a separate "stub" on it? --Ludvikus (talk) 13:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The circulatory systems

    1].funtion-How blood moves through the body.
 2].Things you mite want to know going down the  human body-

Heart-pumps blood, Arties-pumps blood away from the blood, Veins-carry blood back to the heart, capillaries -are the red lines you see in your eyes.

  3].it goes from the mouth ,to the esophagus,to the stomach to the small and large intestines, last the rectum.

red blood cells-makes up 8 percent of your total body mass, white blood cells- makes up 8 percent of your total body mass. platelets-help stop bleeding plasma-liquid part of the blood

   4].TWO  SYSTEMS THAT WORK TOGETHER with the circulatory are 
a].exceretory
b].restpirtroy
   5].2diseases

a].cardiovasular b]. heart failure c].the two upper chambers are called the right to left affriums. d].the two lower chambers are called right to left ventricles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.12.253.66 (talk) 18:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC) hangag royale —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.131.152.78 (talk) 00:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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