Confluent Blood Flow
Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Author: Brad | Filed under: Health and Body | Tags: confluent | 1 Comment »
The innumerable veins in your body meet at the heart to produce a confluent flow rate of 2,000 gallons per day, or about 1.4 gallons per minute. Of course, your body contains nowhere near 2,000 gallons—that is an amount that could fill 40 bathtubs—so your body recycles 100% of your blood over a thousand times per day. In just 24 hours, the blood will travel approximately 12,000 miles.
Confluent (pronounced “KON-floo-ent”)
1. *Flowing together; blended into one.
2. Pathology Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.
Sources
How Stuff Works, PBS Heart Facts
[...] From Old French affluence, which came from Latin affluere, meaning “to flow”. The usage towards wealth came from the notion of “a plentiful flow”. Affluere is also brings us “confluent“. [...]