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| vessels that carry blood away from the heart |
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| tiny interweaving capillaries |
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| a vessel carrying blood away from the tissues and toward the heart |
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| lines the lumen or interior vessels (innermost tunic) |
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| function in support and to protect vessels (outermost) |
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| the flow of blood from an arteriole to a venule |
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| common in people who stand for long periods of time and obese individules (veins become twisted and dialated) |
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| an inflammation of a vein associated with blood clot formation |
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| life threatening condition involving clot detachment |
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| the rythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contraction |
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| Also called pulse points, vessels that can be compressed to stop blood flow into distal tissue |
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| the pressure the blood exerts against the inner walls of the blood vessels |
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| changes in the walls of the large arteries consisting of lipid deposits on the artery walls |
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| a potent vasoconstrictor chemical |
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| an abnormally low blood pressure |
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| occurs in elderly people may experience temperorly low blood pressure and dizziness upon standing suddenly from a sitting or reclining position |
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| a condition in which the blood vessels are inadequately filled with blood and can not circulate normally |
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| an abnormally high blood pressure |
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| the roughening of the vessel walls encourages thrombus formation |
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