Talk:Blood
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- Blood also removes poisons and waste products to the liver, the kidneys, and the intestines to allow them to be rejected from the body in urine and feces.
Is it correct that blood moves wastes to the intestines to be turned into feces? AxelBoldt 03:55 31 May 2003 (UTC)
- There may be creatures in which it does, but it seems very unlikely. And poisons is not a good term when products of metabolism are under discussion. Kosebamse 07:14 31 May 2003 (UTC)
I think we will eventually have to make an article on human blood and move most of this article's material there. Insects for instance also have blood, but this article does not apply to their blood at all. AxelBoldt 03:55 31 May 2003 (UTC)
- Which raises the question whether most anatomy, physiology &c. articles should not be split into a general (zoo- or bio-) and a specific (anthropo-) part. Sometimes the distiction is made, e.g. with anatomy and human anatomy. Kosebamse 07:41 31 May 2003 (UTC)
- Yes, I think that has to happen eventually for most articles. AxelBoldt 18:55 31 May 2003 (UTC)
- Which raises the question whether most anatomy, physiology &c. articles should not be split into a general (zoo- or bio-) and a specific (anthropo-) part. Sometimes the distiction is made, e.g. with anatomy and human anatomy. Kosebamse 07:41 31 May 2003 (UTC)
"higher animals" needs rephrasing IMO -Hemanshu 09:18, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
This article states that
- In the medieval theory of the four bodily humours, blood was associated with fire and with a merry and gluttonous (sanguine) personality.
however the bodily humours article states they associated it with air JeffBobFrank 04:03, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
More Facts
I don't know if these facts should be added, and if so, I don't know where and how to put them. However, I uncovered that " In one day, your blood travels nearly 12,000 miles. Your heart beats around 35 million times per year. Your heart pumps a million barrels of blood during the average lifetime -- enough to fill three supertankers." If put in, this need to be reworded. [[User:Prodigaldruid|Prodigaldruid-Talk]] 17:06, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Vikings a germanic tribe
is there any source indicating vikings was a germanic tribe? (text:Germanic tribes (such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings) Dan Koehl 12:11, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Amount of Blood
Does anyone know how much blood a human can loose before they die? Proportionately (i.e. 3/4 or 1/2)?
Let's say Mike over here has about 5 liters of blood in his body. He is shot and he bleeds to death. How much blood would Mike have lost before he dies?