Sentences with phrase «reroute blood»

Currently, surgeons working to reroute blood around an obstruction must harvest healthy veins from elsewhere in the patient's body.

Neurons cut off by a stroke may have the inherent ability to reroute blood flow and save themselves

More blood is quickly supplied to these muscles as the body reroutes the blood from the hands and feet.

Then they rerouted blood vessels and one or more types of nerves to the transplanted tissue from the nonparalyzed side of the face.

Not exact matches

«It's interesting that the reflex kind of reroutes the entire circulatory system to save blood for the heart and brain, and not pump it through the rest of the body,» says Wennergren.

When it is very cold outside, blood it is rerouted from the working muscles to the body's core, to keep more vital organs warm.