blood vessel

noun

: any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body

Examples of blood vessel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While sodium helps keep fluid in your blood vessels, potassium helps keep fluid in your cells. Christopher Damman, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2024 Part of her care included vasopressors, a powerful medication that the Cleveland Clinic explains forces blood vessels to narrow, making the heart pump more forcefully. Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024 As the doctors began the painstaking process of removing the mass — an orchestrated flurry of fingers tying knots, scalpels slicing flesh, cautery pens searing blood vessels shut — the room grew thick with anticipation. Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024 There was no mandibular canal, a channel holding major blood vessels, and no teeth, but the length of the bone on the left now matched the right, preventing the jaw from drifting, the veterinarians said. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024 Surgical teams thread a long thin wire called a catheter through blood vessels, starting with a puncture in the groin and reaching the left atrium, the heart’s upper chamber that collects oxygen-rich blood from the lungs, pumping it on to feed the body. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024 Meningococcal disease can progress into meningitis, which impacts the brain and spinal cord, and septicemia, which damages blood vessels. The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024 Instead, the cells resist the effects of insulin, and glucose stays in the blood, accumulating and causing many health problems, including damaging blood vessels which contributes to amputations, blindness, heart disease, etc. Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2024 Periosteum is the thin membrane that surrounds bone and holds blood vessels and nerves, helping bones to grow as animals — and people — get older. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1655, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blood vessel was in 1655

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“Blood vessel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20vessel. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

blood vessel

noun
: a vessel (as an artery or vein) in which blood circulates in the body of an animal

Medical Definition

blood vessel

noun
: any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body

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