The English physiologist William Harvey made all of the following circulatory discoveries except: the function of valves in the veins is to direct blood flow back to the heart both pulmonary and systemic blood pressure comes from pumping of the heart blood in the veins is under less pressure than is blood in the arteries arterial pressure is lowest during systole and greatest during diastole the function of the vertebrate heart is to pump blood continuously

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Problem 1VCQ: Figure 40.10 Which of the following statements about the circulatory system is false? Blood in the...
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The English physiologist William Harvey made all of the following circulatory discoveries except:

  1. the function of valves in the veins is to direct blood flow back to the heart
  2. both pulmonary and systemic blood pressure comes from pumping of the heart
  3. blood in the veins is under less pressure than is blood in the arteries
  4. arterial pressure is lowest during systole and greatest during diastole
  5. the function of the vertebrate heart is to pump blood continuously

 

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