Arteries, veins, and capillaries are the three main types of blood vessel.

Arteries, veins, and capillaries are the three main types of blood vessel.

Lungs, heart, veins, arteries and capillaries form the cardiovascular system.

Our arteries can clog. Our brains can gunk up with plaque, and we can get Alzheimer's.

High blood pressure is also not typically lowered as this has not been found to be helpful.

Moreover, such a system would imply little risk of top down discrimination against smaller countries.

The efficiency savings of academia occur downstream from the activities of the universities themselves.

The operation performed on DeBakey involved putting him on cardiac bypass and opening the aorta, the artery that carries blood from the heart to most of the major organs of the body.

That these clogged arteries that you see on the upper left, after only a year become measurably less clogged.

Compounding that error was the absence of any substantive decision concerning how to extricate Cyprus from its downward spiral.

Fortunately, we have relatively little experience with deflation to test the downward spiral theory.

America is still on a downward trajectory for 2009 with grave consequences for the world as a whole.

Short of this, the West will most likely end up as an accomplice to Egypt s continuing downward spiral into violence and economic collapse.

The press wrote about her death in rather, I felt, pornographic ways like, Which bit of artery left which bit of body?

The result is a trap in which poverty causes bad governance and bad governance causes poverty a two way spiral downward that can lead to such extreme deprivation that the government, lacking computers, telephones, information systems, and trained civil servants, couldn t function honestly even if it wanted to.

Indeed, without the single currency, many of these countries would have succumbed to a downward spiral of devaluation, default, and recourse to the IMF.

In sharp contrast, a debt write down like Greece s in 2012, which resulted from a program s failure, only contributes to maintaining the downward spiral.

There were some ups and downs along the way, but the overall trend has been downward, and the magnitude of the decline nearly five percentage points is striking.

This incident has, however, enabled a rare open defiance against top down censorship and even called for collective support from public intellectuals.

By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers.

With a soft economy, a badly compromised financial system, and serious concerns about rising inflation, the long term dollar trend is downward, however the current crisis ends.

Global leadership today seems to be held hostage by financial interests and associated media, ideologists, and oligarchs whose political influence enables them to secure more rents and pay lower taxes in what must truly be the most vicious of circles. Indeed, the menace that now confronts us is not public debt or inflation, but a downward economic spiral that will be increasingly difficult to reverse.

Indeed, the menace that now confronts us is not public debt or inflation, but a downward economic spiral that will be increasingly difficult to reverse.

The allegations involve the armed forces manipulation of the Mindanao vote underscoring how state failure in the south, a politicized military, and paralysis in the capital reinforce each other in a downward spiral.

Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.

BRUSSELS With inflation in the eurozone stubbornly remaining on a downward trajectory, pressure on the European Central Bank to do something to prevent outright deflation is growing.

Death Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967, at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.