• Question: Why do people loose a lot of blood when they are seriously wounded?

    Asked by twinkles to Chris on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Chris Cooper answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      when you have a small wound your blood reacts with the oxygen in the air and clots. This stops the flow. Big wounds – especially arteries – spurt blood too fast for it to clot. So the heart keeps pumping the blod out of the body

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