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Your heart pumps blood throughout your body. With every heartbeat, blood surges out of your heart and into tubes called blood vessels. When blood leaves the heart, it enters blood vessels called arteries. The arteries divide into smaller and smaller blood vessels that carry blood to all parts of the body. The smallest kind of blood vessel in your body is the capillary. Capillaries are so small that you need a microscope to examine them. Blood vessels called veins carry blood back to your heart.
Blood always circulates around your body in the same direction. Blood leaves the heart, travels to each of the cells in your body, and returns to the heart with much less oxygen. The heart then pumps this blood to the lungs to get more oxygen. The oxygen-rich blood travels back to the heart, and the cycle begins all over again. Your heart and blood vessels make up your circulatory system.