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The body's traffic system, with way worse road rage when it clogs.
means The network of blood vessels — arteries, veins, and capillaries — that carries blood through a body or organ.
from Built from Latin vasculum, 'small vessel,' itself a diminutive of vas, 'vessel' or 'container.' Add the suffix -ature (as in 'architecture' or 'temperature') to turn the body part into a whole system, and you get 'vasculature' — coined in modern medical Latin to describe not just one vessel but the entire plumbed network of them.
- total length
- about 60000 miles of vessels per adult
- capillaries
- so thin red blood cells pass single file
- not just blood
- plants and insects have vasculature too
- design flaw
- veins rely on muscles, not a pump, to return blood