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The cells in the heart need a constant supply of nutrients / oxygen and to get rid of their waste products ans that why it needs its own special circulatory system.
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The thymus lies in the chest behind the breastbone and above the heart. Relatively large in infancy, it increases in size until puberty and thereafter shrinks to only a few grams in old age.
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