Question

Blood bank in human body is
A. Spleen
B. Lungs
C. Heart
D. Liver

Answer 1

Hint: It cleans up your blood and Located under the lungs and is important for blood purification and urgent storage of blood cells, as in the case of a hemorrhagic shock.

Complete Answer:
- Spleen located right behind the stomach and under the lungs. It is about 5 inches wide and weighs about 6 ounces. Spleen stores blood and helps fight serious infections. Basically spleen is a blood reservoir moreover it cleans the blood (by filtering out the bacteria and the viruses as they create WBC's to fight against infection) the spleen is protected by the rib cage, The spleen is part of your body’s lymphatic system.

- Lungs are the respiratory organ, it helps in oxygenating the blood, but does not store blood.

- The heart is the main machine which collects and pumps the blood in the entire body, it collects the deoxygenated blood from the body via veins and pump it to the lungs where the blood get oxygenated and reversed back to the heart, now this oxygenated blood directs towards the further cleaning and after than it passes to the other body parts via arteries.

- The liver also helps to filter the blood and receives the dual blood supply, but along with this, it plays major roles in other physiological activities. The liver is a digestive gland that produces bile juice and this bile juice gets stored in the gallbladder.

Note: The lymphatic system helps remove cellular waste, maintain fluid balance, and activate infection-fighting white blood cells for the immune system old red blood cells are recycled in the spleen, and platelets and white blood cells are stored there. The spleen also helps fight certain kinds of bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis. During hemorrhage, the spleen provides blood to the body.