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Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Ambulacrum
noun · 78% connection
One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Anastomosis
noun · 78% connection
The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Blood pressure
noun · 78% connection
the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Capillary
noun · 78% connection
A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Costal groove
noun · 78% connection
groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Diapedesis
noun · 78% connection
The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Efferent
adjective · 78% connection
Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Epithelium
noun · 78% connection
The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Extravasation
noun · 78% connection
The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Feeling
noun · 78% connection
The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Fetal circulation
noun · 78% connection
the system of blood vessels and structures through which blood moves in a fetus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Glossopharyngeal
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Haematoblast
noun · 78% connection
One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Hemal
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to the blood or blood vessels; pertaining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the heart and great blood vesse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Hemoglobin
noun · 78% connection
The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Hilum
noun · 78% connection
The part of a gland, or similar organ, where the blood vessels and nerves enter; the hilus; as, the hilum of the kidney.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
Irritation
noun · 78% connection
The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, constriction, blood, vessels, nerves.
