🇬🇧 Blood vessel meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A blood vessel is one of the many tiny tubes inside your body that blood travels through, like roads for your blood. Your heart is the pump, and the blood vessels are the pathways that carry blood all around your body to deliver oxygen and nutrients and pick up waste. Some blood vessels take blood away from your heart, and some bring it back, all day and all night, without you even feeling it.

The blood vessels in my nose dramatically announced, “We quit!” and caused a nosebleed right before picture day.

The blood vessel in my forehead pops out when I try to open the world’s most stubborn pickle jar.

When I run fast, my blood vessels probably yell, “Traffic jam in the legs!”

When I blush, the blood vessels in my face throw a surprise party and invite all the red blood cells at once.

If you stretched out all the blood vessels in an adult’s body, they could wrap around the Earth more than twice—talk about really long plumbing!

She pricked her thumb on a toy; a thin red thread pulsed. The nurse leaned close and pointed, “See that tiny blood vessel?” A drop moved along the blood vessel, like a tiny train on a blood vessel track through a blood vessel tunnel, and the nurse pressed a strip until the last blood vessel sealed. She sighed and smiled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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