Crossword-Solution: BLOODVESSELS 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The skin is a highly-organized membrane, full of minute pores, cells, bloodvessels, and nerves; it imbibes moisture or throws it off, according to the state of the atmosphere and the temperature of the body.

Bright's disease, gastric and intestinal affections, growths of various kinds, cancer, etc., are each in their turn certified as the "Cause of Death." Most often, however, the initial cause is the overloading of the system with an amount of food beyond that which is necessary or healthful--and thereby clogging up the tissues, the organs and smaller bloodvessels.

Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, one of the leading medical writers in England, in a contribution to the latest edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," tells us: "IRRITATION OF SENSORY NERVES tends to cause contraction of the bloodvessels, AND TO RAISE THE BLOOD-PRESSURE."[1] [1] Enc.

Galvanization of the central extremity of the sciatic nerve causes general constriction of the bloodvessels throughout other parts of the body, INDICATED BY INCREASED ARTERIAL PRESSURE.

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