circulatory system
noun
: the system of blood, blood vessels, lymphatics, and heart concerned with the circulation of the blood and lymph
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For example, the ocean being an extension of our lungs, also the tides, the currents as kind of analogous to a circulatory system, circulating the nutrients around the body of the Earth, etc.
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Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Volume seemed simplest: when there’s not enough fluid in the circulatory system, there’s not enough pressure to pump oxygen around the body.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Lynch’s career-realigning Blue Velvet, which introduced MacLachlan to audiences as amateur detective and voyeur Jeffrey Beaumont, starts with the hero’s father collapsing of a stroke while watering his lawn, the kink in the hose visualizing what happened in the man’s circulatory system.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
From early renderings of flying machines to anatomical drawings of the circulatory system, da Vinci never stopped learning, even if the world wasn’t quite ready for his observations.
—Hunter Ingram For Variety, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
Volume seemed simplest: when there’s not enough fluid in the circulatory system, there’s not enough pressure to pump oxygen around the body.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Lynch’s career-realigning Blue Velvet, which introduced MacLachlan to audiences as amateur detective and voyeur Jeffrey Beaumont, starts with the hero’s father collapsing of a stroke while watering his lawn, the kink in the hose visualizing what happened in the man’s circulatory system.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
From early renderings of flying machines to anatomical drawings of the circulatory system, da Vinci never stopped learning, even if the world wasn’t quite ready for his observations.
—Hunter Ingram For Variety, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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