blood vessels


The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates in the body. Arteries, veins, and capillaries are all kinds of blood vessels. (See circulatory system.)

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How to use blood vessels in a sentence

  • Menstruation may aggravate goitre, uterine fibroid tumours, skin diseases, and affections of the blood vessels.

  • Three muscle-fibres lying beside each other, with the small blood-vessels (capillaries) around and between them.

  • Some forms, however, break down tissues and plug up the small blood vessels, thus causing disease.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • Into each of these filaments pass two blood vessels; in one blood flows downward and in the other upward.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • Numerous blood vessels can be found especially in the walls of the food tube.

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