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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An elastic tubular channel, such as an artery, a vein, or a capillary, through which the blood circulates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any vessel in which blood circulates in an animal body, whether artery, vein, or capillary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Anat.) Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A component of the circulatory system, such as an
artery ,capillary , orvein , that carriesblood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vessel in which blood circulates
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