(almost) burst a blood vessel

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Give directions for checking the flow of blood from small and from large blood vessels. 
The blood vessels and their branches that carry blood from the heart to all parts of the body. 
The epithelium, like the cuticle, is without blood vessels, nerves, or glands. 
Tumors like the tissues of the normal body are nourished by the blood and contain blood vessels often in great numbers. 
You see in fishes the blood vessels come into the gills and get the oxygen. 

blood vessel | American Dictionary

blood vessel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈblʌd ˌves·əl/
any of the tubes through which blood flows in the body

Examples of blood vessel

blood vessel
Rolling continues until integrins take over; they strengthen the adhesion and allow the cells to crawl out of the bloodvessel into the tissue.
In normal wound healing, angiogenesis (new bloodvessel formation from pre-existing vessels) occurs in areas undergoing repair.
For simplicity, we restrict attention to one-dimensional models, with the spatial dimension being outward from the bloodvessel.
We couple the behaviour of the bloodvessel into the model for the oxygen tension.
However, durability of this coil in bloodvessel was 2 to 3 hours.
A feature of some lesions was a centrally located small bloodvessel presenting fibrinoid necrosis with infiltration by polymorphonuclear leucocytes.
There is an imbalance of signals from the corresponding retinae because one is shadowed by the bloodvessel and the other receives normal stimulation.
After the cells away from the bloodvessel have died, they are degraded.
During re-endothelialisation of wounds to the bloodvessel wall, endothelial cells extend protrusive contacts in order to close gaps in the cell layer.
These, in turn, cause the bloodvessel to open or close, and drive the movement of the live and dead cells.
This creates space away from the bloodvessel.
Increased vascular supply to the tumour via the induction of new bloodvessel formation (angiogenesis) encourages tumour growth and facilitates metastasis to distant sites.
Once a constricted bloodvessel falls below a critical size, it supplies no oxygen to the system.
You put the mechanical surgeon inside the bloodvessel, and it goes into the heart and 'looks' around.
Angiogenesis is the predominant mechanism of bloodvessel formation in the adult, and occurs during normal physiological processes such as reproduction, development and wound healing.
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