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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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One early theory focused on blood vessels in and around the brain.
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All we need to stay on point is skin, nostrils, lungs, heart, and a few blood vessels.
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And thus in severe head injuries, it is possible for blood vessels in and around the brain to burst.
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I had saline mixed with Lidocaine pumped into my face to constrict my blood vessels and numb me so I could endure the zapping.
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Specifically, it targets a molecule called VEGF that sends signals that promote the growth of blood vessels.
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Menstruation may aggravate goitre, uterine fibroid tumours, skin diseases, and affections of the blood vessels.
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Three muscle-fibres lying beside each other, with the small blood-vessels (capillaries) around and between them.
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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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