blood vessel
Example Sentences
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High-risk diabetes included people who had the condition for at least 10 years, required daily insulin, or had diabetes-related small blood vessel damage.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
It found the death rate increased among patients who had severe heart attacks, which refers to when a blood vessel that feeds the heart is completely blocked.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
The texture of the crest and the network of blood vessel channels inside it indicate that it was covered in keratin, the same material found in human fingernails.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
It happens when a nerve is strangled by a blood vessel in the face, with it often misdiagnosed as toothache, and attacks caused by something as simple as a gust of wind.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
The man’s face went so purple I thought he’d burst a blood vessel in his neck.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
