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  • Dull eye: collar tight on his neck, pressing on a bloodvessel or something.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The depth of a bloodvessel or other organ from surface will vary for many reasons, even though the same parts in the natural order of superposition shall overlie the whole length of the vessel or organ which we make search for.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Almighty God to tell truth respecting the cry of blood then rising to his throne, evidently was to leave a loop-hole for a doubt whereby justice might be defeated -- a possibility, so they flattered themselves, that, just in the nick of time, a bloodvessel burst, or fright destroyed her, or any thing but the bloody hand of "Rebecca."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

  • He devoted himself, however, to the law, with intense and undivided energy; and, at a very early period of his professional career, was compelled to retire for a time from practice, by one of the most serious mischances which can befall humanity -- it is believed, the bursting of a bloodvessel in the lungs.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

  • Scriptures to him: he died by the bursting of a bloodvessel, at an hour when none of the family were with him.

    The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Isabella Graham

  • The proper locality whereat the puncture is to be made so as to avoid any large bloodvessel or other important organ, is at the middle third of the median line, between P the umbilicus, and Z the symphysis pubis.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • He sees clearly the difficulty of calling vein or blood-vessel a simple part, for while a bloodvessel and a part of it are both blood-vessel, as we should say vascular tissue, yet a part of

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • The main bloodvessel, A B C, of the trunk of the body, possesses character, sui generis, just as the vertebral column itself manifests.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • During the prevalence of the yellow-fever in 1804, she was called to attend her own dying mother, and underwent so much fatigue, that on her return to Mrs. Graham she broke a bloodvessel, and for four months was confined to her room, during all which time Mrs. Graham attended her night and day.

    The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Isabella Graham

  • Through the groove and fissure the mesoderm extends into the optic stalk and cup, and in this mesoderm a bloodvessel is developed; during the seventh week the groove and fissure are closed and the vessel forms the central artery of the retina.

    X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. The Organ of Sight 1918

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