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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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
Aneurism
noun · 78% connection
A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
Crash
noun · 78% connection
(computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative; "the crash occurred during a thunderstorm and the sys…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
Dilative
adjective · 78% connection
Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
Erythema
noun · 78% connection
abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
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…
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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, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
For
conj. · 78% connection
Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an act…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
GABA
noun · 78% connection
an amino acid that is found in the central nervous system; acts as an inhibitory neurotransmitter
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
Gallery
adjective · 78% connection
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: causing, dilation, relaxation, blood, vessels.
