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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...