How to Use blood vessel in a Sentence

blood vessel

noun
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  • The bumps form when the blood vessels under your skin start to leak.
    — Julie Stewart, Men's Health, 21 July 2023
  • As the blood vessels narrow, the heart is forced to work harder to pump blood to the lungs.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • And in the second a blood vessel can burst or leak, putting pressure on the brain.
    — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 16 May 2022
  • An aneurysm is a ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The less common kind is due to a a burst or bleeding blood vessel.
    — Lindsey Tanner, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The cold water can constrict the blood vessels, which can lead to a decrease in blood flow to the heart.
    — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • Two stents were needed to open a blood vessel that was 90% blocked.
    — Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Artery is the specific term used for this type of blood vessel.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
  • He's spent the last decade with a blood vessel disease that leaves him tired all the time and unable to work.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • The femoral artery is a large blood vessel in the thigh that delivers blood to lower limbs.
    — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2023
  • The latter occurs when a blood vessel in the brain leaks or bursts and causes bleeding in the brain.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Fetterman had the most common kind of stroke, caused by clots that block a blood vessel to the brain.
    — Lindsey Tanner, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The huge ears have a dense network of blood vessels beneath the thin skin that allows moving air to cool the blood.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Now the cancer had spread to a blood vessel andpostburst through her skin.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
  • And yet, a doctor showed me an image of my brain and pointed to a dark spot where a blood vessel had burst.
    — Dina Piersawl, Health, 28 Jan. 2023
  • As the body tries to cool down, blood vessels widen, redirecting hot blood from the core of your body toward the surface.
    — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
  • If left untreated, aneurysms can cause the wall of a blood vessel to split or burst, leading to death.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Aneurysms can happen in the leg and create enlarged blood vessels.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • It’s delivered to the blood vessel that rests on the surface of the brain’s motor cortex.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 16 July 2024
  • Among Eliquis users, 1.3% had a stroke or a blood vessel clot, compared with 1.6% who got warfarin.
    — John Fauber and Coulter Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • It can be caused by a blood vessel that bursts in the brain or by trauma such as a car crash, fall or accident.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • When this occurs, the cells can clump together, leading to clots and blockages in the blood vessels.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • And as the alcohol leaves your system over a few hours, the blood vessels will return to normal.
    — Kristin Canning, Health, 30 June 2023
  • Neuralink’s equipment is about the size of a coin; Synchron’s is a small stent-like device that goes into the blood vessels in the brain.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This happens when a blood vessel on the surface of your vocal fold ruptures and the tissues fill with blood.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Certain types of vasculitis can lead to aneurysms, or a rupture in a blood vessel.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The cause was an aortic dissection, a tear in the blood vessel leading from the heart, his son Henry said.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The drug was previously thought to work by reducing the swelling of blood vessels in the nasal passages.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Alcohol and caffeine can increase your heart rate and dilate your blood vessels, both of which can trigger a hot flash.
    — Katie Camero, SELF, 31 July 2024
  • In this case, a blood vessel (called ductus arteriosus) that carries blood past the baby’s lungs before birth does not properly close after the baby is born.
    — Alexandria Jones-Patten, Phd, Health, 27 July 2024

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