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Blood Vessels: A Flawless
Transportation Network

Say: "Who is the Lord of the heavens and the Earth?" Say:
"God." Say: "So why have you taken protectors apart from
Him who possess no power to help or harm themselves?"
Say: "Are the blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and
light the same? Or have they assigned partners to God who
create as He creates, so that all creating seems the same to
them?" Say: "God is the Creator of everything. He is the
One, the All-Conquering." (Surat ar-Ra'd: 16)
The blind and the seeing are not the same. Nor are those
who believe and do right actions the same as evildoers.
What little heed they pay! (Surah Ghafir: 58)

The Veins: The Return Journey in the
Giant Circulatory Network
While the red blood cell loads with carbon dioxide and
gets ready to return, the tunnel around it widens increasingly
as it moves away from the capillaries. A great many erythro-
cytes and other cells have joined it, and they move through the
increasingly widening tunnel like a great army. By now, the
blood pressure moving them has fallen. Subsequently, they
will need to progress more slowly. Their bright red color
imparted by the oxygen has almost entirely disappeared. It is
now a darker color, purplish, because the load they are carry-
ing is carbon dioxide.
These giant tunnels through which the red blood cells pro-
ceed on their way are veins, the vessels by which the cells trav-
eling through the body return home. The widest veins are
as thick as a pencil. 112 The cells in the bloodstream carry
the carbon dioxide and other wastes they've collect-

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