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Definition: Blood Vessel |
Blood VesselNoun1. A vessel in which blood circulates. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A tube in the body through which blood circulates. Blood vessels include a network of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The blood vessels are used to transport blood throughout the human body. The major types of blood vessels are:
see also anatomy, human anatomy, cardiovascular system, circulatory system
- arteries: smaller arteries are called arterioles
- capillaries
- veins: smaller veins are called venules
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blood vessel."
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 | Long-term cultured AIDS-KS (Kaposi's Sarcoma) cells were injected into a nude mouse. Within 5 days a subcutaneous lesion formed in the induced region with a marked angiogenic response. A cross-section of these new blood vessel formations appear as open spaces, where one can see dividing epithelial cells and some red blood cells. The cells were stained with a Wright-Gimsa stain and are seen at a magnification of 100x. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | (a) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with blood vessels at the periphery of tumor. Magnification x100. (b) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with vessels at the periphery of tumor. Magnification x200. (c) cross section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with a small foci of breast cancer cells in which cd34 antibody has stained blood vessels and basement membrane. Magnification x100. (d) cross-section of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast shows intense blood vessel proliferation in stromal tissue adjacent to the malignant tissue. Magnification x200. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Occluded blood vessel. Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | Blood Vessel Changes. (references) | |
Perivascular cuffing or inflammation around a blood vessel. (references) | ||
The most common blood vessel disease that causes stenosis is atherosclerosis. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "blood vessel": Blood Vessel Prosthesis ♦ Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation ♦ meningeal blood vessel. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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broken blood vessel | 100 |
eye blood vessel | 30 |
blood vessel visible | 17 |
eyes broken blood vessel | 12 |
blood vessel disease | 12 |
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heart and blood vessel | 4 |
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blockage blood vessel | 2 |
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adaptation blood vessel wall | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blood vessel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | enë gjaku. (various references) | |
Arabic | عرق وريد, الوعاء الدموي (vessel), الشريان (artery), أوعية دموية, شريان (artery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръвоносен съд (vein). (various references) | |
Czech | céva. (various references) | |
Danish | blodkar (accessory blood-vessel), vene (vein, vena), kar (tub, vat), arterie (artery), aare (paddle). (various references) | |
Dutch | bloedvat. (various references) | |
Faeroese | æðr (vein). (various references) | |
Finnish | suoni (seam, vein). (various references) | |
French | vaisseau sanguin. (various references) | |
German | ader (vein, core, seam). (various references) | |
Greek | αιμοφόρο αγγείο (coronary, coronary artery). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עורק (artery, sinew, vein). (various references) | |
Hungarian | véredény (blood vessels, vein). (various references) | |
Italian | vaso sanguigno. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脈管 (duct, vascular system), 血脈 (blood relationship), 血管 , 気脈 (collusion, conspiracy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きみゃく (collusion, conspiracy), けつみゃく (blood relationship), けっかん (defect, deficiency, fault), みゃっかん (duct, vascular system). (various references) | |
Manx | fuilleydane, feddan folley, cuisle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodblay esselvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaso sanguíneo. (various references) | |
Romanian | vas sanguin. (various references) | |
Russian | кровеносный сосуд (blood-vessel), кровеносные сосуды. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krvni sud. (various references) | |
Spanish | vaso sanguíneo. (various references) | |
Swedish | blodkärl (blood-vessel), blodbana. (various references) | |
Turkish | kan damarı, damar (grain, nerve, phlebo-, streak, string, vascular, vein, vessel). (various references) | |
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| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-l-l-o-o-s-s-v" | |
-2 letters: bloodless. | |
-3 letters: beloveds, loveless. | |
-4 letters: bedells, bedless, beloved, blessed, boodles, doolees. | |
-5 letters: bedell, bedels, belled, belles, bevels, bleeds, bloods, bolled, boodle, bossed, delves, devels, doolee, dossel, levels, loosed, looses, losels, oboles, oodles, selles, selves, soloed, solved, solves, vessel. | |
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