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Capillary :: Capillary (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels..

Garrot :: Garrot (n.) A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb..

Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..

Satellite :: Satellite (a.) Situated near; accompanying; as, the satellite veins, those which accompany the arteries..

Pulse :: Pulse (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb..

Subcolumnar :: Subclavian (a.) Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries..

Diaphragmatic :: Diaphragmatic (a.) Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves..

Circumflex :: Circumflex (a.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts..

Arteriography :: Arteriography (n.) A systematic description of the arteries.

Coronary :: Coronary (a.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart..

Arteries :: Arteries (pl. ) of Arter.

Rheometer :: Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.

Transfuse :: Transfuse (v. t.) To transfer, as blood, from the veins or arteries of one man or animal to those of another..

Throb :: Throb (n.) A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:.

Hemadynamometer :: Hemadynamometer (n.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer..

Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc..

Hemorrhoidal :: Hemorrhoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves..

Carotid :: Carotid (n.) One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.].

Systolic :: Systole (n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

Surance :: Sural (a.) Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries..

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