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  • constricts the smooth muscles of the blood vessels, raising blood pressure, or relaxes the smooth muscles of the blood vessels, lowering blood pressure, among...
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    and the blood vessels – and the intravascular volume (also called the vascular volume and blood plasma volume) – the fluid inside the blood vessels – in...
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    'vessel' and γράφειν graphein 'to write, record'. The film or image of the blood vessels is called an angiograph, or more commonly an angiogram. Though the...
    21 KB (2,278 words) - 03:35, 19 July 2024
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    capillaries back towards the heart. The word vascular, meaning relating to the blood vessels, is derived from the Latin vas, meaning vessel. Some structures –...
    18 KB (2,106 words) - 08:54, 16 July 2024
  • Angiopathy is the generic term for a disease of the blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries). The best known and most prevalent angiopathy is...
    2 KB (224 words) - 15:33, 7 September 2023
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    Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, in particular the large arteries...
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  • Thumbnail for Iloprost
    scleroderma, Raynaud's phenomenon, frostbite, and other conditions in which the blood vessels are constricted and blood cannot flow to the tissues. Iloprost is...
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  • by Karl Sudhoff on 1908. Four charts (the skeleton, the muscles, the blood vessels, the organs) are found in a 264-folio illustrated manuscript, N° “500-510/...
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    Endothelin (category Hormones of the blood vessels)
    Endothelins are peptides with receptors and effects in many body organs. Endothelin constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. The endothelins...
    17 KB (1,655 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2023
  • This disease is basically a change of the skin due to dilation of the blood vessels in the neck. "Civatte" was the French dermatologist who first identified...
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    and veins—throughout the human body. Using contrast injected into the blood vessels, images are created to look for blockages, aneurysms (dilations of...
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  • hilum by which the ovarian ligament is attached, and through which the blood vessels enter: it does not contain any ovarian follicles. This article incorporates...
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    The blood–testis barrier is a physical barrier between the blood vessels and the seminiferous tubules of the animal testes. The name "blood-testis barrier"...
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    effectiveness of diffusion increases. The villi are connected to the blood vessels so the circulating blood then carries these nutrients away. Vertical...
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    cannot be made red by trauma, cold, or heat. The paler area is due to the blood vessels within the area which are more sensitive to the body’s normal vasoconstricting...
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    whereas the stroma includes the nerves that innervate the parenchyma, the blood vessels that oxygenate and nourish it and carry away its metabolic wastes...
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    angiomyolipomas may grow such that kidney function is impaired or the blood vessels may dilate and burst, leading to bleeding. Angiomyolipomas are strongly...
    17 KB (1,884 words) - 04:41, 21 July 2024
  • osteolathyrism in its mechanism, employing the toxin beta-aminopropionitrile. The blood vessels are affected, as opposed to bone. Neurolathyrism is caused by the...
    7 KB (690 words) - 17:48, 27 March 2024
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    physiologist Alfred Volkmann (1800-1878). The perforating canals, with the blood vessels, provide energy and nourishing elements for osteons. Bone by decalcification...
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  • The nicotine is absorbed through the lining of the mouth and enters the blood vessels. It is used as an aid in nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), a process...
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