Sentences with phrase «tiny blood vessels called»

Human skin has many sweat glands in it, and beneath the surface of the skin is a vast network of tiny blood vessels called capillaries.

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First, they 3 - D - printed wormlike strands of a gel called agarose, each serving as a cast of a tiny blood vessel.

Early in pregnancy, these trophoblasts invade the uterine wall and later develop a complex network of tiny projections called villi, which contain fetal blood vessels.

Tiny red dots on the skin, called petechiae, occur when the smallest blood vessels in the body, called capillaries, bleed into the skin.

In the nephron, a glomerulus — which is a tiny blood vessel, or capillary — intertwines with a tiny urine - collecting tube called a tubule.

As you drink and force your body to metabolize alcohol, you're converting ethanol into acetaldehyde and acetate in your liver, and this causes increased production of tiny blood vessel constrictors called thromboxanes.

You can often see tiny blood vessels coursing across the cornea called neovascularization.

Tiny acupuncture needles are inserted into the skin where nerve bundles and blood vessels are located — called acupuncture or energy points — to improve blood circulation, oxygen flow, nerve stimulation, and the release of hormones that help relieve inflammation and pain.