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Circulation
Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide

By Anne Asher, About.com

Updated October 24, 2005

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Circulation is the event of transporting oxygen all over the body and collecting carbon dioxide to remove it from the body, by way of the lungs. Circulation would not be possible without the pumping action of muscles, but other physiologcial processes are at work here, as well.
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