Sentences with phrase «organs via the blood»

Upon entering lymphatic vessels, they migrate to nearby lymph nodes, which then swell up, and from there, to other organs via the blood.

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The research suggests there are more people infected in lymphoid tissues, who may never develop the disease but could still infect others via blood transfusions or organ donations

Ultrasound vibrations penetrate bodily tissue including bone, and are widely used to image anatomical structures via echo effects, e.g. visualizing unborn babies in mothers» wombs, and organs, blood vessels, nerves and other structures in medical procedures.

Sometimes they'll spread, or metastasize, to other organs via tight blood vessels.

«We reasoned that organs in the body are in one medium — the blood — so we created a simple version of the blood and allowed the tissues to communicate via the medium.»

The command center for our endocrine glands is in our brain — the hypothalamus and pituitary glands — and they send signals to distant parts of the body to control everything from our stress response through our adrenal glands to our blood sugar balance through our pancreas to our thyroid hormone via our thyroid gland to our sexual behavior and function through our reproductive organs.

The physical heart is a muscular organ that is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body via the circulatory system.

Hormones are chemical communicators (i.e. estrogen, progesterone) secreted by the endocrine glands (i.e. ovaries) that carry messages via the blood to and from body organs and glands.

Bacteria under the gums can spread via the blood stream to the vital organs such as the heart, liver, kidneys, and lungs.