blood vessel
Also known as edder, blood vessels
tubular structure which carries blood
AI overview
A blood vessel is a tube-shaped structure in your body that carries blood throughout your system. Blood vessels matter because they deliver oxygen and nutrients to your organs and tissues, and remove waste products, which is essential for keeping you alive.
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Research
995,548 papers- Blood Vessel Maturation in Health and Disease and its Implications for Vascularization of Engineered Tissues.Critical reviews in biomedical engineering · 2015
- Blood vessel growth in benign tumours can illuminate malignant ones.Nature · 2022
- Bioengineered blood vessels.Expert opinion on biological therapy · 2014
- Blood vessel surgery.American journal of surgery · 1953
- Blood vessel surgery.Canadian Medical Association journal · 1953
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Article
Blood vessels are the tubular structures of a circulatory system transporting blood in animal bodies. Blood vessels transport blood cells, nutrients, and oxygen to most of the tissues of a body, and also transport waste products and carbon dioxide away from the tissues. Some tissues – such as cartilage, epithelium, and the lens and cornea of the eye – are not supplied with blood vessels, so are termed avascular.
There are five types of blood vessels: the arteries, which carry the blood away from the heart; the arterioles; the capillaries, where the exchange of water and chemicals between the blood and tissues occurs; the venules; and the veins, which carry blood from the capillaries back towards the heart.