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  2. Damodar River - Wikipedia

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    Krishak Setu over the Damodar River, near Bardhaman Damodar River between Dhanbad and Bokaro. So great was the devastation every year that the floods passed into folklore, as the following Bhadu song testifies: We have sown the crops in Asar We will bring Bhadu in Bhadra. Floods have swollen the Damodar The sailing boats cannot sail. O Damodar!

  3. Barakar River - Wikipedia

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    The Barakar River is the main tributary of the Damodar River in eastern India.Originating near Padma in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand it flows for 225 kilometres (140 mi) across the northern part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, mostly in a west to east direction, before joining the Damodar near Dishergarh in Asansol, Bardhaman district of West Bengal.

  4. Damodar (Krishna) - Wikipedia

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    Damodar (Sanskrit: दामोदर, IAST: Dāmodara, also spelled "Damodara" and "Damodarah") lit. ' "roped around the abdomen" ' [1] is the 367th name of Vishnu from the Vishnu Sahasranama. The various meanings of the name are given as follows:

  5. Coronary arteries - Wikipedia

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    The coronary arteries are the arterial blood vessels of coronary circulation, which transport oxygenated blood to the heart muscle. The heart requires a continuous supply of oxygen to function and survive, much like any other tissue or organ of the body. [1] The coronary arteries wrap around the entire heart.

  6. Circulatory system - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. Heart - Wikipedia

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    The Greek physician Galen (2nd century CE) knew blood vessels carried blood and identified venous (dark red) and arterial (brighter and thinner) blood, each with distinct and separate functions. [91] Galen, noting the heart as the hottest organ in the body, concluded that it provided heat to the body. [93]

  8. Cardiac physiology - Wikipedia

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    The function of the right heart, is to collect de-oxygenated blood, in the right atrium, from the body via the superior vena cava, inferior vena cava and from the coronary sinus and pump it, through the tricuspid valve, via the right ventricle, through the semilunar pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary artery in the pulmonary circulation ...

  9. Aorta - Wikipedia

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    The aorta (/ eɪ ˈ ɔːr t ə / ay-OR-tə; pl.: aortas or aortae) is the main and largest artery in the human body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart, branching upwards immediately after, and extending down to the abdomen, where it splits at the aortic bifurcation into two smaller arteries (the common iliac arteries).