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The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
Atul Gawande

Meaning of "blood vessel" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLOOD VESSEL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLOOD VESSEL

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Blood vessel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLOOD VESSEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

blood vessel

Blood vessel

The blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system that transports blood throughout the human body. There are three major types of blood vessels: the arteries, which carry the blood away from the heart; the capillaries, which enable the actual exchange of water and chemicals between the blood and the tissues; and the veins, which carry blood from the capillaries back toward the heart. The word vascular, meaning relating to the blood vessels, is derived from the Latin vas, meaning vessel. Avascular refers to being without vessels.

Definition of blood vessel in the English dictionary

The definition of blood vessel in the dictionary is an artery, capillary, or vein.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLOOD VESSEL

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blood sample
blood sausage
blood serum
blood sister
blood spinning
blood sport
blood substitute
blood sugar
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blood test
blood transfusion
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WORDS THAT END LIKE BLOOD VESSEL

Bessel
Brussel
Cassel
chessel
coastguard vessel
escort vessel
free alongside vessel
IJssel
Kassel
merchant vessel
motor vessel
mussel
Overijssel
pressure vessel
recovery vessel
russel
salvage vessel
seed vessel
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vessel

Synonyms and antonyms of blood vessel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BLOOD VESSEL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «blood vessel» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of blood vessel

Translation of «blood vessel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLOOD VESSEL

Find out the translation of blood vessel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blood vessel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blood vessel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

血管
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vaso sanguíneo
570 millions of speakers

English

blood vessel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रक्त वाहिका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأوعية الدموية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кровеносных сосудов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vaso sanguíneo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রক্তবর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vaisseau sanguin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

saluran darah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blutgefäß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

血管
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

혈관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prau getih
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mạch máu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரத்த நாளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रक्त वाहिनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kan damarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vaso sanguigno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naczynie krwionośne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кровоносних судин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vas de sange
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αιμοφόρο αγγείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bloedvat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blodkärl
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blodåre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blood vessel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLOOD VESSEL»

The term «blood vessel» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.775 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about blood vessel

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QUOTES WITH «BLOOD VESSEL»

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Atul Gawande
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOOD VESSEL»

Discover the use of blood vessel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blood vessel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blood Vessel Changes in Hypertension Structure and Function
Written by established researchers, this two-volume publication provides timely, comprehensive and insightful reviews on recent discoveries in the etiology of hypertension.
R.M.K.W. Lee, 1989
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Macromolecular Transport in Heart Valves and Blood Vessel Walls
Using separation of scales, one obtains asymptotic, thin intima solutions for the transport model.
Zhongqing Zeng, 2006
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Imaging Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel Mimics with Optical ...
The results of the present study suggest that OCT endoscopic systems may be a valuable tool for assessing and optimizing the development of tissue engineered constructs.
Garret Thomas Bonnema, 2008
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Blood Vessels
This question can also be put in regard to the hole down the centre, or lumen, of a blood vessel. Certainly, without a lumen a blood vessel would cease to exist as a functional component of the body. CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA A ...
Walter John Cliff, 1976
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World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering ...
A lot of efforts are dedicated to automate the analysis of retinal images. Among the problems of computerized retinal analysis is detection of blood vessel tree. Most of the blood vessel tracking methods either generate numerous seed points  ...
Olaf Dössel, Wolfgang C. Schlegel, 2010
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Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: ...
2.3 Separating the Disconnected Parts from the Sample of Interest and Calculating the Distribution of Intersection Lengths After a blood vessel on the image is sampled at various background depths, as illustrated in Fig. 2.d, the disconnected ...
Dit-Yan Yeung, International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2006
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Essentials of Pathophysiology: Concepts of Altered Health States
D Blood Vessel Structure and Function The walls of all blood vessels, arteries, and veins are composed of three layers called tunica (Fig. 18-1). The outermost layer of a vessel, called the externa or adven- titia, is composed primarily of loosely ...
Carol Porth, 2011
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Methods of Tissue Engineering
Dror Seliktar and Robert M. Nerem The development of a tissue-engineered blood vessel substitute is being pursued by means of a variety of different approaches. These include techniques based on collagen, synthetic polymers, and cell ...
Anthony Atala, Robert Paul Lanza, 2002
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6th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB 2010), 1 - 6 August ...
One is two dimensional blood vessel network formations in an egg, and the others are three dimensional blood vessel and cancer model. 3D cancer model are three cases, cancer growth and angiogenesis from a blood vessel case and 6  ...
James Goh Cho Hong, Chwee Teck Lim, 2010
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Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16: Parallel, Combinatorial, ...
Real-time Blood Vessel Deformation with Bleeding Based on Particle Method Nobuhiko MUKAI M, Masashi NAKAGAWA a and Makoto KOSUGI a a Graduate School of Engineering, Musashi Institute of Technology, JAPAN Abstract.
James D. Westwood, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOOD VESSEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blood vessel is used in the context of the following news items.
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High Blood pressure in Black people
Receptors for vitamin D are in these blood vessel cells. Thus, vitamin D may help to prevent excess muscle cells building up in your blood ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»
2
Procedure at Midtown helps stroke victims recover
A hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a weakened blood vessel ruptures and bleeds in the brain. An ischemic stroke happens when a blood ... «Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Jul 15»
3
Scientists may have discovered how to stop breast cancer from …
DOCK4 seems to be the catalyst for blood vessel growth, particularly in breast tumors that are spreading to the brain. By blocking it, doctors ... «SheKnows.com, Jul 15»
4
UVA Research: Basic Beliefs About Atherosclerosis Overturned
The clot can also dislodge and cause a stroke if it lodges in a blood vessel in the brain. As such, understanding what controls the stability of ... «NBC 29 News, Jul 15»
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Vascular Health: Millions at Risk for Peripheral Arterial Disease
"With PAD, a vascular surgeon uses a man-made vessel or a blood vessel from another part of the body to create a new passage that goes ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
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FAQ: Heartburn Meds and Health Risks
Earlier research found PPIs can harm blood vessel lining. That finding led researchers to study if the drugs were linked to a higher risk for heart ... «WebMD, Jul 15»
7
Does high cholesterol run in your family? Why Familial …
Although FH isn't curable, drugs and lifestyle measures can help reduce the build-up of the blood vessel-blocking fatty deposits produced by ... «BT.com, Jul 15»
8
What Your Eye Color Says About Your Health
You could have Sjögren's syndrome, a common autoimmune disease, an infection, blood vessel abnormality, or something even more serious. «Cosmopolitan.com, Jul 15»
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Meghan Trainor Postpones Tour Dates; Find Out Why Here!
"A vocal hemorrhage occurs when a small blood vessel located within the vocal fold bursts. This results in blood leaking into the vocal fold and ... «Latinos Post, Jul 15»
10
UC Davis Doctors Save Skydiver With New Heart Procedure
“Now we can do a minimally invasive approach where we put a stent graft into the blood vessel to provide a seal of support for the area of injury ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»

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