Circulatory system: References & Edit History
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General accounts and elementary descriptions of circulatory systems are found in many biology textbooks, including the following: Raymond F. Oram, Biology: Living Systems, 5th ed. (1986); Karen Arms and Pamela S. Camp, Biology, 3rd ed. (1986); and Paul B. Weisz and Richard N. Keogh, The Science of Biology, 5th ed. (1982). Textbooks dealing with animal structure at a more advanced level include the following: Ralph M. Buchsbaum, Animals Without Backbones, 3rd ed. (1987); Robert D. Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology, 5th ed. (1987); Alfred Sherwood Romer and Thomas S. Parsons, The Vertebrate Body, 6th ed. (1986); and Charles K. Weichert, Anatomy of the Chordates, 4th ed. (1970); Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment, 3rd ed. (1983); and Milton Hildebrand, Analysis of Vertebrate Structure, 2nd ed. (1982).
For the history of circulation studies, see Helen Rapson, The Circulation of Blood (1982); David J. Furley and J.S. Wilkie (eds.), Galen on Respiration and the Arteries (1984); The Selected Writings of William Gilbert, Galileo Galilei, William Harvey (1952), in “The Great Books of the Western World” series; Fredrick A. Willius and Thomas J. Dry, A History of the Heart and the Circulation (1948); and Alfred P. Fishman and Dickinson W. Richards, Circulation of the Blood: Men and Ideas (1964, reprinted 1982). Special studies of circulation include Donald A. McDonald, Blood Flow in Arteries, 2nd ed. (1974); David I. Abramson and Philip B. Dobrin (eds.), Blood Vessels and Lymphatics in Organ Systems (1984); Colin L. Schwartz, Nicholas T. Werthessen, and Stewart Wolf, Structure and Function of the Circulation, 3 vol. (1980–81); and Jerry Franklin Green, Fundamental Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physiology, 2nd ed. (1987).
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Article History
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| Article title updated for style. | Nov 06, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Physiology, Pulmonary Circulatory System. | Oct 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: UH Pressbooks - Biology - Overview of the Circulatory System. | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Neuroscience: Canadian 1st Edition - The Circulatory System. | Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Healthline - What Makes Up Your Circulatory System and How Does It Work? | Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Updated information about the atrium of the heart. | Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis - Department of Surgery - Demystifying the Circulatory System. | Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Healthdirect - Circulatory system. | Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - The Circulatory System: An Amazing Circuit That Keeps Our Bodies Going. | Aug 02, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Circulatory system and the heart. | Jan 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Physiology, Pulmonary Circulatory System. | Jan 21, 2024 | ||
| Added an interactive diagram of the major systems of the human body. | Dec 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - Biology 2e - Overview of the Circulatory System. | Nov 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland - The Circulatory System. | Sep 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - The Circulatory System. | Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - 11 Surprising Facts About the Circulatory System. | Jun 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Overview of the Circulatory System. | May 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Circulatory System. | Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Nov 16, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Rader's Biology4Kids - Circulatory System. | Sep 27, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Better Health Channel - Circulatory system. | Sep 27, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Untamed Science - Biology - Circulatory System. | Sep 12, 2012 | ||
| Title of article changed from "circulation" to "circulatory system." Opening sentence changed from "process by which nutrients..." to "system that transports nutrients...". | Jun 18, 2012 | ||
| Added video overview of the human circulatory system. | Feb 09, 2011 | ||
| Added diagram of human circulatory system. | May 03, 2010 | ||
| Line art depicting the major components of the human circulatory system added. | Jan 21, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Qin Dynasty. | Jul 31, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Nemours Foundation - For Teens - Heart and Circulatory System. | May 11, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Sikh Encyclopedia - Biography of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck. | Jul 23, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: United States History - Watergate Scandal. | Sep 12, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: None. | Jul 10, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | May 11, 2001 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 26, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |