Arteries and veins are both types of blood vessels ... giving off branches that lead up to the head, arms, abdominal and ...

At the hospital he was diagnosed with a ruptured arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels that connects arteries and veins in the ... that a hit to the head by a soccer ball ...

And in order to keep that retina healthy and perfused, there's blood vessels. There's arteries, and there's veins. And so your body can generate a thrombosis or an occlusion-- so that's a little ...

Such images are then used as maps to direct catheter-like devices through veins and arteries into and through ... forge a distal lens that makes up the head of the probe that allows for bending.

Atherosclerosis, or "hardening of the arteries," is a vascular disease (disease of the arteries and veins). Carotid artery disease is similar to coronary artery disease, in which blockages occur in ...

The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. Your heart pumps blood and oxygen to all of the organs and tissues of the body through a network of “pipes” called arteries and veins. The heart ...