Sentence examples for off the arteries from inspiring English sources

It was a popular technique -- 90percentt of patients reported that it helped -- but when Cobb compared it with placebo surgery in which he made incisions but did not tie off the arteries, the sham operations proved just as successful.

Professor Wallace also notes of a second benefit moderate drinking could have for your heart in helping "prevent the formation of blood clots which can close off the arteries, causing a heart attack.

You can use an ice cube instead of cold water to close off the arteries.

Perhaps to keep the toxins from spreading, the body walls off the arteries and veins around the bite.

The researchers then mimicked a heart attack in the animals by tying off one of the arteries that deliver blood to the heart, injuring part of the muscle.

The agency did send a warning letter to Kirby on April 4, claiming that Cocaine was being sold as "an alternative to an illicit street drug" and made untenable claims about how the drink's active ingredient, inositol, could help ward off hardening of the arteries, nerve damage and anxiety.

If the cuff is too loose, the cuff will not cut off the artery correctly, giving you an inaccurately low blood pressure reading.

A heart attack is a plumbing problem, in which cholesterol plaque breaks off in one of the arteries feeding your heart and causes the blood there to clot.

A healthy heart can deal with this, but if someone already has coronary heart disease then on rare occasions the sudden rise in blood pressure can cause fatty deposits inside the wall of the arteries to break off and block the artery.

From time to time, I could spot the smaller canals, which run like tiny veins, splitting off the main arteries under graceful old stone bridges.

To test this hypothesis, several investigators have tied off the bronchial artery of sheep and then exposed the animals to smoke.