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Vascular system

noun

The vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant.

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... on each side of the prominent bone are of great effect, I suppose, by their stimulus; which excites into action more of the sensorial powers of irritation and sensation, and thus gives greater activity to the vascular system in their vicinity. The methods recommended in distortion of the spine are also to be ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... structure so varied, arising probably from the immense number of species which have served as antitypes for the existing species, and thus produced a complicated branching of the lines of affinity, as intricate as the twigs of a gnarled oak or the vascular system of the human body. Again, if we consider that we have only fragments of this vast system, the stem and main branches being represented by extinct species of which we have no knowledge, while a vast mass of limbs and boughs and minute twigs and scattered leaves is what ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

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