Sentence examples for healthy vein from inspiring English sources

The usual treatment for the condition is to remove the blocked vein and replace it with sections of healthy vein from other parts of the body.

A large anatomical drawing of a man shows users the location of their main veins and arteries, and there is even a machine addicts can use that illuminates a healthy vein to spike.

Her blood pressure dropped to 60 over 45 and nurses were desperate to find a healthy vein in order to inject the necessary medication.

I was getting impatient, wondering what the hell was going on, when Tom emerged from the kitchen and said, "So, Legs, you wanna meet Chet Baker?" Thrilled, I followed him into the kitchen where Chet had his jeans and underwear bunched down around his knees, one hand cupped and lifting his scrotum, while the other held a syringe, as he looked for a healthy vein on his uppermost thighs.

When a vein cannot be opened through this procedure, a more invasive surgery, known as coronary artery bypass, is used to replace the damaged artery with a healthy vein from another part of the body.

In varicose and healthy veins, we also determined the number of cells in apoptosis, and investigated mediators regulating the intrinsic apoptotic mitochondrial pathway (Bax and caspase 9).

It is to be measured in the pumping of healthy blood through healthy veins into active, joyful old age, not the ripping out of body parts to serve a mindless new aesthetic.

This procedure - in which healthy veins from other parts of the body are used to replace arteries supplying the heart with blood - suggests that Fiennes suffered from coronary heart disease.

I couldn't help but think back to my own admittance to the hospital, also on an oxygen tank, with no healthy veins in sight and a tube to drain water from my lungs.

Treatment consists of the use of elastic bandages or strong support hose; sclerotherapy, which involves the injection of a solution that closes the vein, causing blood to be rerouted to healthier veins; and surgical treatment, which may consist of removing the affected veins (e.g., vein stripping) or closing the veins endoscopically or with the use of lasers.

Blood samples (5 mL) were collected from six healthy persons by vein-puncture in a heparin coated vacutainers according to the method of Hudson and Hay [60].