blood vesselnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈblʌd ˌves.əl/us/ˈblʌd ˌves.əl/any of the tubes through which blood flows in the body
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The circulatory system & blood
- Abo
- accessory pathway
- antigen
- atrioventricular
- auricular
- blood donor
- blood sugar
- erectile
- intravenous
- LV
- mediastinal
- microvascular
- myocardial
- myocarditis
- oxyhaemoglobin
- palpitate
- pressure point
- pulse
- Rh factor
- semilunar valve
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Examples from literature
- Give directions for checking the flow of blood from small and from large blood vessels.
- The blood vessels and their branches that carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body.
- The epithelium, like the cuticle, is without blood vessels, nerves, or glands.
- Tumors like the tissues of the normal body are nourished by the blood and contain blood vessels often in great numbers.
- You see in fishes the blood vessels come into the gills and get the oxygen.
Idiom(s)
(almost) burst a blood vessel