The heart muscle needs oxygen-rich blood to do its job. The vessels that feed the heart are called coronary arteries (shown in the diagram right) and they branch off from the body’s main artery, the ...

All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...

Aneurysms on blood vessels located in the back half of the brain (vertebral arteries, the basilar artery ... are difficult to treat with coiling or surgery (Figure 6). Figure 4. A diagram of the steps ...

Most techniques (except saphenous vein and tail blood vessel ... 1: Diagram of a transverse sectional view of a rat tail showing the dorsal vein (DV), lateral veins (LV), and ventral artery ...

All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...