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Your body's highway system, except every car is also a delivery truck.

means The blood as it circulates through your body, carrying oxygen, nutrients, and whatever else hitched a ride, to every cell that needs them.

from A straightforward compound of 'blood' and 'stream,' built in the 19th century once physiology had a firm grip on the idea that blood flows in a continuous circuit rather than sloshing around as older medicine imagined — the word simply names what Harvey's work on circulation had already proven: blood moves like a current, so it earned a current's name.

total length
about 60,000 miles of vessels
full loop time
roughly one minute per circuit
oxygen taxi
red blood cells live just 4 months
rush hour
heart moves 2,000 gallons daily
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