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UNIT VIII CIRCULATORY SYSTEM (2ND) Flashcards

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Function of Circulatory System

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Brings blood containing oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to cells

Transports CO2 and other wastes away from cells

Fights infection and regulates body temperature

Helps stabilize pH and ionic concentration of body fluids.

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Protective sac of connective tissue

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Pericardium

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Filled with fluid

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Pericardial fluid

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3 main parts of Circulatory System

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  1. Heart
  2. Blood vessels
  3. Blood
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A muscular pump

Moves blood through the body

Is suspended in the pericardial sac

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Heart

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Heart

Composed of four chambers

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  1. Righ Atrium (upper chamber)
  2. Left atrium (upper chamber)
  3. Right ventricle (lower chamber)
  4. Left ventricle (lower chamber)
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Heart

Heart is divided into?

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Right and left Halves

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Heart

Heart is made up of?

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Cardiac muscle cells

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The muscle of the heart

Strong and thick

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Myocardium

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Myocardium

Myocardium is composed of

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Sponteneously contracting cardiac muscle fibers

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Myocardium

Myocardium can conduct?

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Electricity like nerves

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Myocardium

It’s blood supply comes from the?

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Coronary arteries

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Chambers of the heart

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  1. Atria (2) upper chambers
  2. Ventricle (2) lower chambers
  3. Septum
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Chambers of the Heart

Thin walled

Receive blood from veins

Send blood to ventricles

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Atria

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Chambers of the hear

Thick walled

Receive blood from atria

Pump blood out through arteries

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Ventricles

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Chambers of the Heart

Wall that divides heart into right and left halves

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Septum

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Cord-like tendons

Prevent inversion of valve

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Chordae tendinea (Heart Strings)

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Chordae tendinea (Heart Strings)

Connect papillary muscles to?

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Tricuspid and Mitral Valves

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Chordae tendinea (Heart Strings)

Small muscles that anchor the cords

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Papillary muscles

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The Blood flow of the heart

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  1. Superior Vena Cava/Inferior Vena Cava
  2. Right Atrium
  3. Tricuspid Valve
  4. Right Ventricle
  5. Pulmonic Valve
  6. Pulmonary Arteries
  7. Pulmonic Veins
  8. Left Atrium
  9. Mitral Valve
  10. Left Ventricle
  11. Aortic Valve
  12. Aorta
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3 Main parts of the Blood vessels

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  1. Artery
  2. Vein
  3. Capillary
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Blood Vessels

Receive blood from ventricles

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Take blood away from the heart

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Usually carry oxygenated blood

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Thickest vessel walls

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Withstand greater blood pressure

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Are very elastic

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Connect to Capillaries

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Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Largest artery

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Aorta

Arteries

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Blood Vessels

Transport blood away from capillaries

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Carry blood toward heart

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Take blood to atria

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Have valves

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Thinner vessel walls with less smooth mucles than arteries

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Can stretch a great deal

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Usually carry deoxyhgenated blood

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Veins

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Blood Vessels

Largest Vein

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Vena Cava

Veins

38
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Blood Vessels

Smallest of blood vessels

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Capillaries

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Blood Vessels

Only one cell thick (Epithelial Cell)

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Capillaries

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Blood Vessels

Connect arteries to vein

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Capillaries

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Blood Vessels

Bring oxygen and nutrients to cells

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Capillaries

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Blood Vessels

Removes CO2, urea, and other wastes from cells

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Capillaries

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Blood Vessels

Where blood is under low pressure and moving slowly

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Capillaries

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How blood travels through vessels

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  1. Heart
  2. Artery
  3. Arteriole
  4. Capillary
  5. Venule
  6. Vein
  7. Heart
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3 Main Types of Blood

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  1. Red Blood Cell
  2. White blood Cell
  3. Platelet
46
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Messenger functions, including transport of hormone and signaling of tissue

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Blood

47
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Blood

Part of body’s self-repair

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Coagulation

48
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What regulation in blood

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  1. Regulation of core body temperature
  2. Regulation of body pH and ion concentrations
49
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Blood

Blood supply ____ to ______

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Supply oxygen to tissues

50
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Blood

Blood supply nutrients such as

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Glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids to tissue

51
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Blood

including circulation of white cells, and detection of foreign material by antibodies

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Immunomological functions

52
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Blood

including transport of hormone and signaling of tissue

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Messenger functions

53
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Blood

What percent of your body is blood

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8%

54
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Blood

How much blood do we contain

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On average 4-6 liters. We contain about a pint of blood for every 15 pounds of body weight

55
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Blood

What percent of your blood is cellular

Composition of Blood

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45%

56
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Blood

What percent of your blood is plasma

Composition of Blood

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55%

57
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A clear, straw colored

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Plasma

58
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Plasma

what percent of plasma is water?

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90%

59
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what contains in plasma

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  1. Dissolved gasses
  2. Vitamins
  3. Minerals
  4. Salts
  5. Nutrients
  6. Enzymes
  7. Hormones
  8. Waste products
  9. Plasma proteins
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Plasma

The elements of blood

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  1. Plasma (about 55%)
  2. Platelets 0,01
  3. Red blood cells (about 41%)
  4. White blood cells (about 4%)
  5. Lymphocyte
  6. Basophil
  7. Eosinophil
  8. Monocyte
  9. Neutrophil
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Blood

The Cellular components are

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  1. Red blood cells (erythrocytes)
  2. White blood cells (leukocytes)
  3. Platelets (thrombocytes)
62
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Blood

Blood cells are formed in?

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Bone marrow

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Blood

Red blood cell Characteristics

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  1. RBC - Erythrocyte
  2. Biconcave Disks
  3. No nucleus
  4. Contain the iron based pigment hemoglobin which binds with oxygen to transport it
  5. Life span about 120 days
  6. 5 billiion/1mL of blood = most numerous
  7. Are very small
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Blood

White blood cells Characteristics

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  1. WBC - Leukocyte
  2. No definite shape
  3. Have nucleus
  4. Protect body against infection
  5. Life span varies (3 days-a few months)
  6. 7,000/1mL of blood
  7. Numbers increase if infection is present
  8. Larger than RBC’s
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Types of White Blood Cells

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  1. Monocytes
  2. Neutrophils
  3. Lymphocytes
  4. Basophils
66
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Types of white blood cells

**The largest **

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Monocytes

67
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Types of white blood cells

The most numerous

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Neutrophils

68
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Types of white blood cells

Produced by the lymph tissue

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Lymphocytes

69
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Types of white blood cells

Release histamines

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Basophils

70
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Types of white blood cells

The role of macrophage is to

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phagocytize (engulf and then digest) cellular debris and pathogens

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Types of white blood cells

When a cell undergoes apoptosis, programmed cell death, white blood cells called

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macrophages consume cell debris

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Platelet Characteristics

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  1. Thrombocyte
  2. RBC fragments
  3. Irregularly shaped
  4. No nucleus
  5. 150,000-400,000/1mL
  6. life spand bout 7-11 days
  7. Have a sticky surface
  8. Responsible for blood clotting (injury healing)
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Are the most numerous

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Red blood cells and platelets

74
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Of the leukocytes, ______ are the most numerous

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Neutrophils

75
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are the predominant cell types responsible for immune responses

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Lymphocytes

76
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Blood vessel injured

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Blood clotting

77
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Blood clotting

clump at the site and produce a substance that produces strands of fibrin

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Platelets

78
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Blood clotting

helps clog the opening or hole in the vessel

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Fibrin strands

79
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The clotting cascade

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  1. Thromboplastin
  2. Prothrombin
  3. Thrombin
  4. Fibrinogen
80
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Filipino

Circulatory System

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Kaayusang pang-salibutan

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Filipino

Blood vessel

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Daluyang-dugo

82
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Filipino

Capillary

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Lamuymoy

83
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Filipino

Artery

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Luwasdaluyan

84
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Filipino

Vein

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Balidaluyan

85
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Filipino

White blood corpuscles

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Puting litbutil-dugo

86
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Filipino

Red blood corpuscles

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Pulang litbutil-dugo

87
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Filipino

blood Platelets

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Muntilipay ng dugo

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