Sentences with phrase «choke off blood»
If your hemorrhoid is protruding from your anus, a colorectal surgeon can place a rubber band around it to choke off its blood supply so that it eventually falls off, Dr. Ky says.
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Instead they clump and choke off blood flow, causing intense pain as bits of lung, bone, brain, and kidney succumb to a lack of oxygen.
This contraction would choke off the blood supply wherever it occurs in the brain and exacerbate an injury by starving brain tissue of oxygen, Parker says.
If we can stop cancers from growing by choking off their blood supply, we can help our patients feel better and live longer.»
«Smoking increases wrinkles due to facial motion, and it also has a vasoconstricting effect, which means it chokes off blood vessel circulation,» says dermatologist David Stoll, MD, author of A Woman's Skin.
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These masses of blood cells can grow big enough to choke off veins and arteries, preventing oxygen from flowing to critical organs.
«The idea of choking adipose tissue off from its blood supply to make an animal leaner seemed incredibly wrong,» says Randy Seeley, a neuroscientist at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, who was not involved in the study.
This, in turn, chokes off the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle (a condition called ischemia), leading to chest pain and potentially a heart attack.