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Vascular system   /vˈæskjələr sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Vascular system

noun
1.
The vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant.



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"Vascular system" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the osseous skeleton displays the law of symmetry; but while the osseous system offers no exception to this law, the vascular system offers one which, in a surgical point of view, is of considerable importance—namely, that behind the right sterno-clavicular articulation, C, Plate 9, is found the artery, A, named innominate, this being the common trunk of the right common carotid and subclavian vessels; ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise
... movements of which he is in large part unconscious, which he does nothing to initiate, and which he is largely powerless to prevent. Some of them are wholly, and others almost, out of the reach and power of his will. Such are the movements of the heart and vascular system, the action of the lungs in breathing, the movements of the digestive tract, the work of the various glands in their process of secretion. The entire organism is a mass of living matter, and just because it is living no part of ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts


Words linked to "Vascular system" :   lymphatic system, vessel, system, body, cardiovascular system, water vascular system, vascular tissue, circulatory system, vas, physical structure, portal system, organic structure, systema lymphaticum, vascular plant, tracheophyte


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