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The horse hoof contains a structural component known as the "frog", which covers the deeper structure of the hoof known as the digital cushion, a vessel-filled tissue.When the horse places weight on a leg, the ground pushes upward on the frog, compressing it and the underlying digital cushion.
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A lymph heart is an organ which pumps lymph in lungfishes, amphibians, reptiles, and flightless birds back into the circulatory system. [1] [2] In some amphibian species, lymph hearts are in pairs, and may number as many as 200 in one animal the size of a worm, while newts and salamanders have as many as 16 to 23 pairs of lymph hearts.
The frog is a part of a horse hoof, located on the underside, which should touch the ground if the horse is standing on soft footing. The frog is triangular in shape, and extends midway from the heels toward the toe, covering around 25% of the bottom of the hoof.
An open circulatory system is made up of a heart, vessels, and hemolymph. This diagram shows how the hemolymph is circulated throughout the body of a grasshopper. The hemolymph is first pumped through the heart, into the aorta, dispersed into the head and throughout the hemocoel, then back through the ostia that are located in the heart, where ...
In vertebrates, the circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the body. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes the cardiovascular system , or vascular system , that consists of the heart and blood vessels (from Greek kardia meaning heart , and Latin vascula meaning vessels ).
Boy, 8, Saves Choking Friend With Heimlich Maneuver: See The Video. Mass General Brigham, a health care system in Boston, Massachusetts, shared on its website step-by-step guidance on how to ...
Original - Simplified circulatory system diagram fro basic functions in human blood vessels. Reason Includes web-safe fonts, checked SVG codes and seems in good shape, plenty of sources Articles this image appears in Blood vessel, Circulatory system Creator LadyofHats. Support as nominator--Zoo Fari 21:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)