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  • Lateral anastomoses were employed in arterio-venous sutures and in the operation of the Eck fistula.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • It may also lead to sclerosis or increase of fibrous tissue, especially in the kidneys, when it may result in the condition known as arterio-capillary fibrosis.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • I mean, it went to the next level, it became an arterio-occlusion (ph), where the clot jumps from the vein into the artery and that's where we ended up in surgery.

    CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2004 2004

  • I'll take voluntarism any day in preference to the arterio-sclerosis of thorough analyses.

    The Padilla Case Yglesias, Jose 1971

  • This mechanism, since the point where it acts is provided by the circular muscles of the medium-sized arteries and arterioles, should, as Krogh observed, more properly be named arterio-motor.

    Physiology or Medicine 1920 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • The arterio-motor mechanism distributes the minute-volume supplied by the heart to the various organs of the body, while the capillaro-motor apparatus controls the surface separating blood and tissue in these organs, i.e. the surface which all the materials brought up to supply the tissues must cross.

    Physiology or Medicine 1920 - Presentation Speech 1967

  • In arterio-venous sutures the vein is generally larger than the artery.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • Duval, still struggling futilely with his harness, said, "It's a fistula an arterio-venous fistula."

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • Grant said, "No more arterio-venous fistulas, I hope, Michaels."

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • Water containing sulphate of soda is also indicated as a beverage where there are troubles of the circulatory apparatus; it is contraindicated only in accentuated arterio-sclerosis.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

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