 | John Sterling Kingsley - Anatomy - 1917 - 472 pages
...circular or elliptical in outline. THE BLOOD-VASCULAR SYSTEM The blood-vessels include the arteries, which carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body; the veins, which bring it back, and the capillaries, minute tubes, which connect the ends of the arteries... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1918 - 554 pages
...fibers interlacing so as to form a figure of eight. It also contains nerves and vessels. The arteries carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body. They terminate in the capillary vessels^ a series of extremely minute tubes which pass over into the... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer - English language - 1919 - 616 pages
...style. ar tpr v (ar'tgr-1). n. ]pi. . oi-tci-jf one Of a system of tubes or arteries (-Iz)], sels which carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body; any great channel; as, an artery of trade. — ad}, arterial. ar TO cion moll (ar-te'zhan wgl), a deep... | |
 | Wilson Gardner Harger, Edmund Arnold Bonney - Roads - 1919 - 1022 pages
...BLEEDING (HEMORRHAGE) Kinds of Blood-vessels. — There are two kinds of blood-vessels. Those that carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body are called arteries. The blood in them is bright red, and escapes in jets or spurts corresponding to... | |
 | William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer - English language - 1919 - 876 pages
...bloodvessels. ar t_r -. (ar'tfr-I), n. Ipl. arteries (-Iz)l, ai-ici-j one Of a systcm of tubes or vessels which carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body; any great channel; as an artery of trade. or +£» CM an wall (lir-te'zhin wel) , a deep ar-te Sian... | |
 | Mary S. Haviland - Hygiene - 1921 - 214 pages
...spurts." '' He must have cut an artery,'' said Father. '' You know, the arteries are the pipes that carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body and the veins carry the blood to the heart. When a vein is cut, it does not bleed so fast, isn't quite... | |
 | Mary S. Haviland - Hygiene - 1921 - 220 pages
...spurts." ' ' He must have cut an artery, ' ' said Father. ' ' You know, the arteries are the pipes that carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body and the veins carry the blood to the heart. When a vein is cut, it docs not bleed so fast, isn't quite... | |
 | Mary S. Haviland - House cleaning - 1921 - 212 pages
...spurts." ' ' He must have cut an artery, ' ' said Father. ' ' You know, the arteries are the pipes that carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body and the veins carry the blood to the heart. When a vein is cut, it does not bleed so fast, isn't quite... | |
 | Ralph Earl Blount - Health education - 1922 - 336 pages
...about its enemy and thus devours it. The Blood Tubes. — The arteries are the tubes or vessels which carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body. They are much like the branches of a tree, dividing into smaller branches as they get farther from... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1923 - 504 pages
...fibers interlacing so as to form a figure of eight. It also contains nerves and vessels. The arteries carry the blood from the heart to all parts of the body. They terminate in the capillary vessels, a series of extremely minute tubes which pass over into the... | |
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A tight bandage is placed around the arm above the place where the vein is to be opened. The blood in returning through it toward the heart, is interrupted in its passage, and as the artery underneath is not compressed, the vein is filled with blood,... 
