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  2. Umbilical artery - Wikipedia

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    A catheter may be inserted into one of the umbilical arteries of critically ill babies for drawing blood for testing. [6] This is a common procedure in neonatal intensive care, and can often be performed until 2 weeks after birth (when the arteries start to decay too much). [7]

  3. Neonatal heel prick - Wikipedia

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    The blood of a two-week-old infant is collected for a Phenylketonuria, or PKU, screening. The neonatal heel prick is a blood collection procedure done on newborns.It consists of making a pinprick puncture in one heel of the newborn to collect their blood.

  4. Cerebral arteries - Wikipedia

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    Arteries of head and neck. Angiogram of the arterial supply.. The cerebral arteries describe three main pairs of arteries and their branches, which perfuse the cerebrum of the brain.

  5. Arteriole - Wikipedia

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    An arteriole is a small-diameter blood vessel in the microcirculation that extends and branches out from an artery and leads to capillaries. [1]Arterioles have muscular walls (usually only one to two layers of smooth muscle cells) and are the primary site of vascular resistance.

  6. Artery - Wikipedia

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    An artery (from Greek ἀρτηρία (artēríā)) [1] is a blood vessel in humans and most other animals that takes oxygenated blood away from the heart in the systemic circulation to one or more parts of the body.

  7. Collateral circulation - Wikipedia

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    Collateral circulation is the alternate circulation around a blocked artery or vein via another path, such as nearby minor vessels. [1] It may occur via preexisting vascular redundancy (analogous to engineered redundancy), as in the circle of Willis in the brain, or it may occur via new branches formed between adjacent blood vessels (neovascularization), as in the eye after a retinal embolism ...

  8. Brachial artery - Wikipedia

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    The brachial artery is the major blood vessel of the (upper) arm. It is the continuation of the axillary artery beyond the lower margin of teres major muscle.It continues down the ventral surface of the arm until it reaches the cubital fossa at the elbow.

  9. Muscular artery - Wikipedia

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    A muscular artery (or distributing artery) is a medium-sized artery that draws blood from an elastic artery and branches into "resistance vessels" including small arteries and arterioles.