Sentences with phrase «cutting off blood»

Embolisation involves cutting off the blood supply to your womb — and the fibroid — using a little wire threaded through an artery in your groin and injecting a glue - like substance into it.

When stuck in a pinch point, one's vessels are often compressed, cutting off blood flow to muscles and tissue, and resulting in cell death.

A pulmonary embolism can be deadly because it blocks the artery in the lung, cutting off the blood supply completely.

The University of Kansas is investigating the use of radioactive beads implanted in the tumor, and researchers at other institutions are looking at ways to shut off tumor growth by cutting off the blood supply to the maverick cells.

The Breed Club of Pembroke Welsh Corgis in America promotes the banding of tails of puppies at an early age to prevent the growth of the tail by cutting off the blood supply to that part of the growing dog.

These things can cause the dog's stomach to fill with gas which may cause it to twist on its axis, cutting off blood flow to the stomach and other vital organs.

If the condition is allowed to progress the stomach could actually twist, cutting off blood supply to the stomach and increasing your dog's risk for death.

These things can cause the dog's stomach to fill with gas which may then cause it to twist on its axis, cutting off blood flow to the stomach and other vital organs.

This is a condition in which the abdomen fills with gas, causing the stomach to twist on its axis, cutting off blood flow to the stomach and other vital organs.

The material has stretch, so there is no risk of cutting off blood flow when the wrap is tight.

But this neoprene knee brace or old school athletic tape, you're actually cutting off the blood flow to the damaged area which if you think about it is probably not the smartest thing that you want to do which is why you always took it off about an hour after you put it on, right?

If medications aren't effective, you may need to undergo a more invasive procedure, such as uterine artery embolization, which eliminates fibroids by cutting off blood flow to them, or a myomectomy (surgical removal).

A new study, in Nature Biotechnology, investigates the use of nanorobots to shrink tumours by cutting off their blood supply.

Bruises form all over the body as clots form in arteries, cutting off blood to fingers, toes, and vital organs.

Cancer treatments often target tumors by cutting off blood vessels and other nutrient supply routes, so Monje and others are interested to learn whether it may be possible to target nerves via analogous therapies or by simply blocking secreted neural growth factors.

The body usually fights tumors, cutting off their blood supply.

Then they gave the animals strokes, cutting off blood to the artery supplying motor and sensory areas of the brain.

This technology helps blood circulation the most without restricting movement or cutting off blood flow anywhere.

Too tight running gloves can create problems by cutting off blood circulation at your wrist.

So a mom who's having a Viroplasms basically is cutting off the blood supply to her nipple.

Less than 11 months after having hip - replacement surgery, Jackson looked much like the vibrant, sculpted specimen we were used to seeing before he fractured his left hip socket, shearing cartilage and cutting off the blood supply to the top of the thigh bone, while being tackled in an NFL playoff game on Jan. 13, 1991.

It was an ordinary tackle, but Jackson landed wrong, fracturing his hip socket, shearing cartilage and cutting off the blood supply to the top of the femur.

They can freeze it off, or tie a piece of string around the stalk, cutting off blood supply until it falls off, the NLM explains.

Ovary torsion, or the twisting, rotating, or flipping of the ovary can also cut off its blood supply, according to Prevention.

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

Too tight compression socks might cut off blood circulation.

If it does not, then there are other options to remove it, such as using silver nitrate to shrink it and using surgical string to cut off the blood supply so it eventually just falls off.

They can cut off blood flow and may make varicose veins worse.

To test the cells» abilities, the researchers injected them into the injured body parts of rodents with diabetes or injuries that cut off blood flow to the retina, heart or hind leg.

A technique that turns mouse brains transparent like glass has given the first - ever 3D view of how stroke cuts off blood supply in the brain

Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer, Robert Cooke (Random House) Judah Folkman is convinced the best way to kill tumors is to cut off their blood supply.

But at the low levels inside the body, the gas seemed to prevent liver damage from surgery that temporarily cut off blood flow to the organ in mice.

For an indicator of artery constriction, the researchers used an inflated blood - pressure cuff to cut off blood flow to the forearm and hand for 4.5 minutes.

An ischemic stroke occurs when a clot cuts off blood flow to part of the brain, depriving those cells of oxygen and nutrients like the blood sugar glucose that they need to survive.

Painful blockages of arteries in the legs — called peripheral arterial obstructive disease, or PAOD — are less familiar than the ones that cut off blood flow to the heart, but they can be just as dangerous.

For patients who have experienced a large stroke that cuts off blood supply to a large part of the brain, the use of standardized medical management protocol and surgery to decompress swelling can improve life expectancy, Mayo Clinic researchers found in a recent study.

Arizona State University scientists, working with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, have created an army of nanorobots that seek out tumors and cut off their blood supply safely and effectively.

This crack causes a blood clot to form, which in turn cuts off the blood supply to the heart, resulting in a heart attack.

That cramped position cuts off blood flow to your hand and you wake up with pins and needles.

Otherwise they are going to cut off your blood flow.

Last but not least it would be good to mention an alternative Japanese hypertrophy technique called Kaatsu, which involves the use of cuffs, wraps or ligatures to cut off the blood flow to muscles during weight training.

If a plaque bursts, the resulting clot is more likely to cut off blood to the heart.

An ovarian torsion is when the ovaries twist and it cuts off blood supply to them which causes the intense pain.

I say shut up and play its a great game worth every penny and kids can play too you have the option to cut off blood and language, why hell kids are playing call of duty and gta5 anyway..

Grief makes your stomach turn, snatches the breath from you, cuts off the blood supply to the brain; mourning blows you in a new direction.

Be firm without clenching the other person's hand so hard you cut off blood flow.

The abuse cut off the blood supply to Caitlyn's tongue.

Eventually, the expansion will lead to the gastric circulation that cuts off the blood supply to other organs.

The concern is that this condition eventually cuts off the blood supply to the stomach which can lead to shock and even death.

It can also can get tangled around hamster limbs and cause stress and cut off blood.