For thousands of years the ancient silk routes served as major arteries of interaction, spanning the valleys of the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Indus and Ganges, and the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. They connected the birthplaces of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian and Chinese civilizations...
What are arteries? Read an artery definition, learn about major arteries and how arteries function, and understand the dangers of hardening of the...
The posterior tibial artery is a type of blood vessel that begins behind the knee and descends the leg towards the back of the...
What is arteriosclerosis? Cardiovascular System: The cardiovascular system is responsible for the blood flow through the body. The heart and blood vessels make up the cardiovascular system and transport the blood that delivers oxygen and nutrients to your body. Arteries are the blood vessels that car...
Takayasu's arteritis is an uncommon condition in which inflammation damages large and medium-sized arteries. The arteries most commonly affected are the branches of theaorta(the main blood vessel that leaves the heart), including the blood vessels that supply blood to the arms and travel through ...
Atherogenesis is a process that leads to the formation of plaques of fatty materials that then line the arteries, causing...
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common type of heart disease. Although it’s the top cause of death in the U.S., there is a lot you can do to prevent or treat it. The trouble starts when a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside the arteries that supply blood to th...
Blood flows too quickly from the arteries and pushes on the walls of the veins. The walls weaken and become narrow. The artery walls also become weak. They begin to bulge from blood that is not able to go into the narrow veins. An AVM that has not burst usually causes no symptoms, ...
But I find that life kills the child in you a very slow death. They’re like tiny little paper cuts until the arteries bleed out. And I don’t want that for myself. So I want to not be too serious, not be too focused on the worst case scenario, not be too concerned about what...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor