BLOOD CIRCULATION 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS Galen 2

Galen 2 nd Century AD • Blood is formed all the time from food and drink that a human consumes • Blood flows to the heart where it passes from the left to the right side • Blood is consumed by the body or it passes out as wastes. © 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS

William Harvey (1578 -1657) The scientific approach to medicine • Took the bodies of sheep and pigs and drained out all their blood, which he measured • Calculated the volume of the ventricles of the animal’s heart • Measured the pulse • Conclusion: impossible for food and drink to replace all the blood leaving the heart. © 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS

Blood circulates Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus 1628 • Systole is the active phase of the heart's movement • Heart valves allow blood flow in only one direction • The ventricles contract together • The heart septum contains no gaps or perforations • The valves in the veins permit the blood to flow only in the direction of the heart. © 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS

Marcello Malpighi 1661 • Harvey suggested the existence of small capillaries between arteries and veins • 1660 s Anthony Leeuwenhoek & Robert Hook started to use microscopes on biological tissues • Malpighi observed blood capillaries vindicating Harvey. © 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS Frog lungs observed by Malpighi C Hwa, & W C. Aird American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology (2007) Vol. 293 no. 5,

Double circulatory system LUNG TISSUE Pulmonary circulation Right Heart Left Heart Systemic circulation BODY

CHARACTERISTICS VESSEL LUMEN WALL NUMBERS DIAMETER THICKNESS /mm VOLUME OF BLOOD /% AORTA 25. 0 2. 0 1 2 ARTERIES 4. 0 160 8 ARTERIOLES 0. 03 0. 02 57 million 1 CAPILLARIES 0. 006 0. 001 13 000 million 5 VENULES 0. 02 0. 002 1 300 million VEINS 5. 0 0. 5 204 VENA CAVA 30. 0 1. 5 2 HEART - - - 12 PULMONARY CIRCULATION - - - 18 © 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS 54

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Blood vessels compared Arteries Capillaries Veins Take blood away from the heart Exchange materials between the blood and the tissues Return the blood to the heart High pressure blood Fast flowing blood Pulses High Low pressure Slow flowing Low pressure blood Slow flowing blood Against gravity Thick, muscular, elastic walls Walls one cell thick (0. 5 µm) Diameter 6 µm Very numerous so total xsectional area v. large Muscular not very thick Valves Large internal diameter © 2016 Paul Billiet ODWS