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At length all these circumstances are increased; the quantity of pleasure introduced into the system by the increased irritative muscular motions of the whole sanguiferous, and glandular, and absorbent systems, becomes so great, that the organs of sense are more forcibly excited into action by this internal pleasurable sensation, than by the irritation from the stimulus of external objects.

—Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

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Receiving and conveying blood; circulatory, as a blood-vessel. The sanguiferous system of the higher animals consists of the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins. Also sanguiniferous. This fifth conjugation of nerves is branched … to the muscles of the face, particularly the cheeks, whose sanguiferous vessels twist about. Derham, Physico-Theology, v. 8.

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At length all these circumstances are increased; the quantity of pleasure introduced into the system by the increased irritative muscular motions of the whole sanguiferous, and glandular, and absorbent systems, becomes so great, that the organs of sense are more forcibly excited into action by this internal pleasurable sensation, than by the irritation from the stimulus of external objects. — Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The sanguiferous vessels underwent an extraordinary increase, or, at least, became remarkably evident. — Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart
With increased actions of the sanguiferous system. — Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
With decreased actions of the sanguiferous system. — Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Of the sanguiferous system. — Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life