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Definition of Blood vessel

1. Noun. A vessel in which blood circulates.

Definition of Blood vessel

1. Noun. (anatomy) referring to any vessel in which blood is carried, such as arteries, capillaries or veins ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Blood vessel

1. All the vessels lined with endothelium through which blood circulates. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Vessel

Literary usage of Blood vessel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"A traumatic aneurism is a false aneurism resulting from a slight injury to a blood vessel. Severe injuries, such as complete division of a blood vessel, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It commonly results from injury, as the tearing or cutting of a blood-vessel, but certain forms result from disease, as in scurvy and purpura. ..."

3. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"THE circulatory apparatus consists of two systems of tubular structures, the blood-vessel system and the lymph-vessel system, which serve respectively for ..."

4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"... an investigation upon the effect of temperature changes upon the rate of contraction of the dorsal blood vessel of the earthworm, Lumbricus agrícola, ..."

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