blood vessel
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- noun
- /blʌd ˈvɛsəl/
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vaso sanguíneo
- We gave this patient therapy to open up the blood vessels, in this case TPA.
- small blood vessels
- nerves and blood vessels
- large blood vessels
But it's this beautiful, gorgeous framework that has all the blood vessels still there.
- But it's this beautiful, gorgeous framework that has all the blood vessels still there.
- And the blood vessels also grew in from cells that were distant.
- That's actually the tiny cells that line your blood vessels and your lymph vessels.
- Lens of your eye does not have any blood vessels feeding it whatsoever.
- Third step was to find substances that would stop blood vessels from growing.
- You can actually have a build up of blood vessels in the skin of your cheeks and nose.
- Now you damage those protector bacteria, suddenly your blood vessels are even more vulnerable.
- And with this increased leakage and perfusion of fluid from the blood vessels, it's going to cause swelling.
- As the body grew and needed bigger and stronger lungs with better blood vessels, they failed to develop.
- That's like like blood vessels, No corpuscles.
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This increased pressure can cause blood vessels to leak and fluid to build up in the brain.
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They sealed off the blood vessel that was ballooning out.
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So that means problems with the blood vessels of the heart.
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But what you can see is the blood vessels starting to form.
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So we know that they impact, for example, how our blood vessels function.
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There were broken blood vessels.
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So basically just a spider web of little blood vessels was keeping my entire leg alive.
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Heart attack means the heart stops because the blood vessels supplying it get blocked.
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Beyond that, they'll also notice new very tiny, irregular blood vessels beginning to grow.
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The doctor explained that the procedure would focus on repairing damaged blood vessels in the patient's leg.
Synonyms
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A tube in the body that carries blood or lymph
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Morphology
The meaning of 'blood vessel' is directly and transparently composed from 'blood' (the circulatory fluid) and 'vessel' (a tubular structure for transport); a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes tubes carrying blood. This is a standard, literal noun-noun compound found across many languages and domains (medical and general), so it is immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The phrase blood vessel comes from a simple image: blood is the red liquid in the body and vessel once meant a hollow 'container' or 'tube' for liquid. So a blood vessel is literally a small tube that 'carries' blood, which is why the term means the tubes in the body that move blood around.