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**Arteries** - Arteries, part of your circulatory (cardiovascular) system, are the blood vessels that bring <span class="highlight">oxygen-rich blood</span> from your heart to all of your body's cells.

**capillaries**
**Capillaries** - Capillaries, very tiny vessels, deliver blood containing oxygen and nutrients close to every cell in the body. No cell is very far away from a capillary.

**Veins** - Blood vessels located throughout your body that collect oxygen-poor blood and return it to your heart

**Hepatic artery** - Hepatic artery supplies the liver with oxygen-rich arterial blood.

**Hepatic portal vein** - This vein brings blood from the digestive system, so that the liver can process the food which has been absorbed, before it travels to other parts of the body.

**Hepatic veins** - All the blood leaves the liver in the hepatic veins.


### Blood

**Plasma** - The liquid part of blood is called plasma.

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