What is the function of blood?
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blood carries oxygen to the different cells of the body... It also carries carbon dioxide from the cells back to the heart. The blood vessels carrying oxygen from heart to cells is called Arteries... These are usually very deep inside the skin and normally you cant see them and the vessels which carries carbon dioxide back to the heart are called veins these are the vessels you can see below the skin for example on back of your wrists. Heart works in conjunction with lungs to pump in oxygen and pump out carbon dioxide.
Blood also has Corposules which are very vital for immunity as these are agents which fight anti bodies (e.g harmful bacteria and viruses) and hence help in keeping the body free from infections
It carries things around the body such as oxygen, the waste gas we breath out, antibodies and such like. It clots to help form a scab when the skin is broken etc.
blood transports and carried all the essential things your body requires around. think of it as a big highway. blood cells transport vitamins, food and oxygen around your organs to wherever its needed. you have different bloody cells for different purposes, white blood cells fight infections... and clot to stop you bleeding when needed. red blood cells are the transporters. xxx
• Delivers nutrients, oxygen and hormones to the body cells
• Transfers heat from muscles and the liver, it gets taken around the body. (Like a central heating system it regulates your bodies temperature)
• Removes all the waste and Carbon Dioxide from the body cells
It's main purpose is to carry oxygen around our bodies. The white blood cells build up our immune system (antibodies). It helps to heal, repair and protect the skin, hence scabs.
Depends on whether you're wanting a specific or vague answer. Blood is both a ferryman and a soldier. It travels around every single cell and organ of your body deliverting nutrients and oxygen to them through sometimes infinitesimally small blood vessels called Capilliaries, and also through the much larger and stronger vessel of the Pulmonary Artery, where it first leaves the heart.
The blood is much more than an oxygen courier. It's also a defender. Blood is generally made up of four things: One, the plasma, which nutrients are suspended in. 2, red blood cells, which carry the oxygen, 3, white blood cells, specifically Phagocytes and Lymphocites, which protect your body from germs and bacteria, and finally, platelets, macroscopic fragments of red blood cells that form the basic superstructure of scabs which shield a wound from the outside world and infection, whilst white blood cells go to work to heal it.
The blood also acts as a courier for hormones and one or two enzymes (im not sure which ones). Think of it as an all purpose courier.
Your body has a set amount of blood, even though the marrow at the core of your bones can produce new blood cells, this can take a while and a large enough wound can deprive your body of so much blood that you can pass out, fall into a coma or even die. So be careful!
Hope this helped, im afraid i didnt take it much further than that so I'm not sure how much bettter i can go =)
Well, from an engineering stand-point, it's really pretty brilliant. If you could design a robot with a circulatory system, and a digestive system, it would have no need of batteries, or repair, because it would be able to create its own fuel out of whatever it could find to eat, and the blood would be crucial in transporting microscopic building supplies and energy from that raw fuel, so the robot could rebuild itself spontaneously and refuel without the help of a scientist. The blood is crucial in redistributing building supplies for repairs, and sugars (which are themselves metamorphosed solar energy) for energy to fuel all activity.
transport of food waste and hormones by plasma, transport of heat from internal organs by plasma to maintain a constant body temperature, transport of oxygen by red blood cells, defence against disease-white blood cells(phagocytes) engulf and digest bacteria WBCs(lymphocytes) produce antibodies to destroy foreign bodies like bacteria and viruses and platelets clot the blood preventing blood loss and the entry of disease causing organisms
to feed your body.
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