Synopsis
Using state-of-the-art graphics, Michael Mosley illustrates what happens inside the body in response to a wound or injury.
- Programme: Inside the Human Body
- Episode: 04: Hostile World
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Biology | Organisation | Circulatory system | Blood
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