I want to look at the blood vessels. I want to look at the liver.

Because if you actually look through your fingernails, you can see blood vessels, and once you see blood vessels, we think we can see the malaria.

Sickle cell disease receives its name from the abnormally shaped red blood cells, like a sickle in appearance, that get stuck in the blood vessels.

And, like a tumor, fat grows when blood vessels grow.

The blood veins in our hands echoed a course of water traces on the Earth.

Water pots lined up for filling in Mamallapuram, India.

The smallest blood vessels are called capillaries we've got 19 billion of them in our bodies.

It s not so much psychological, it s vascular, and nicotine makes your arteries constrict.

I think that blood vessels are bursting in my lungs when I cough.

Flexible, bifurcating blood vessels and fibrous but elastic bone matrix tissue were recognized.

And once those vessels invade the cancer, it can expand, it can invade local tissues.

It's a protein that shows up when your blood vessels might be inflamed, which might be a risk for heart disease.

And the same vessels that are feeding tumors allow cancer cells to exit into the circulation as metastases.

And we can do this because tumor blood vessels are unlike normal, healthy vessels we see in other places of the body They're abnormal they're very poorly constructed and, because of that, they're highly vulnerable to treatments that target them.

So the body's ability to balance angiogenesis, when it's working properly, prevents blood vessels from feeding cancers.

Burials were in some cases accompanied by meat offerings (horsemeat for men and beef for women), and various objects, including clay vessels.

Because skin blood vessels constrict in cold water, the walrus can appear almost white when swimming.

And when those excess vessels are no longer needed, the body prunes them back to baseline using naturally occurring inhibitors of angiogenesis.

We get most of these blood vessels when we're actually still in the womb, And what that means is that as adults, blood vessels don't normally grow.

We call this antiangiogenic therapy, and it's completely different from chemotherapy because it selectively aims at the blood vessels that are feeding the cancers.

And the third challenge is vascularity, the actual supply of blood to allow those organs or tissues to survive once we regenerate them.

On rear view sunglasses, the left end of the left glass and the right end of the right glass work as mirrors.

William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases anti angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first step Eating cancer fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

He suggested that tumors emit a substance called tumor angiogenesis factor, which causes surrounding blood vessels to grow toward it, supplying nutrition and removing waste.

Except in a few special circumstances In women, blood vessels grow every month to build the lining of the uterus during pregnancy, they form the placenta, which connects mom and baby.

And if you look through the eye, or you look at the vessels on the white of the eye, in fact, you may be able to do this directly, without drawing any blood at all, or through your nail beds.

CALGARY When Harvey Cushing and William Bovie introduced electrocautery (which uses a high frequency current to seal blood vessels or make incisions) in 1926, their innovation transformed neurosurgery.

But what we now know is that for a number of diseases, there are defects in the system where the body can't prune back extra blood vessels or can't grow enough new ones in the right place at the right time.

Is it possible that muscle somehow intuitively knows that it needs this blood supply? It needs to be constantly contracting, so therefore it's almost selfish. It's grabbing its blood vessels for itself.

One of the most effective anti smoking ads was done by the Department of Health Services, showing that nicotine, which constricts your arteries, can cause a heart attack or a stroke, but it also causes impotence.

Rather than encourage individuality, schools reinforce the outdated notion that children are empty vessels waiting to be filled and more disturbingly, that they must toe the line.

The disorder, which is inherited from parents, makes it difficult for the blood vessels to deliver oxygen to the body, causing intense pain and leading to complications like organ damage and stroke at times.

But rather all of these different practices you know, the ancient swamis and rabbis and priests and monks and nuns didn t develop these techniques to just manage stress or lower your blood pressure, unclog your arteries, even though it can do all those things.