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Its main effect is causing blood vessels to contract.
—Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
In the other form, abnormal blood vessels growing behind the retina damage the macula by leaking blood into it.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2025
While experts can't pinpoint one specific reason for why strokes are increasing in younger adults, high blood pressure is one of the biggest risk factors for intracerebral hemorrhage or ICH strokes, which occur when a blood vessel bleeds in the brain.
—Sarah Klein, SELF, 16 Jan. 2025
These blood vessels can cause a slow GI bleed that starts and stops intermittently.22
Mallory-Weiss syndrome: This is a tear in the mucosal lining of the GI tract, usually where the esophagus meets the stomach.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 11 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
1655, in the meaning defined above
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“Blood vessel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20vessel. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
blood vessel
noun
: a vessel (as an artery or vein) in which blood circulates in the body of an animal
Medical Definition
blood vessel
noun
: any of the vessels through which blood circulates in the body
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