Vascular Quotes

In recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs. ~ Alexis Carrel

Watching It Happen

I laze about, deranged and unafraid
to godly kiss you, kiss the pharmacist
that whipped you, undilute, to dilate high
your animus of lime and lye.

I know of an upstairs hell.
A creamy, vascular thump
through bonus years of things that pass
and things that do not move.
Your cellular mouth. Your mess
of inattention. Now that none
of us are good looking I think
that/they are right.

Strokes of light you taped across my nipple.
Patterns staked to fake the love
we cannot feel so slick the miser
of your hand through my bad heart.
Genius, you are blond enough.
Once in a while.

And in the end, when I sweep coolly up
and will not be drawn back,
then I will tell you of it. How I can.
In writing, I am making an attempt
to depict my beautiful nose
through imagery.

I will tell you of it. Once in a while.
I will miss you. And the tape.
To be flung down,
petals from a balcony. ~ Elaine Kahn

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. ~ Mitch Kapor

Your spirit shouldn't be 'fine.' It should be effervescent."

The "spirit" in question wasn't the soul. Nothing so abstract. It was spirit of the body - the clear fluid pumped by the second heart through its own network of vessels, subtler and more mysterious than the primary vascular system. Its function wasn't properly understood by science. You could live even if your second heart stopped and the spirit hardened in your veins. But it did have some connection to vitality, or "passion," as Master Hyrrokkin said, and those without it were emotionless, lethargic. Spiritless. ~ Laini Taylor

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease. ~ Paul Shepard

The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless survived in niche environments. Similarly, on a larger scale, it is rare for the loser to disappear completely, or for the latecomers never to gain at least a precarious foothold. The fact that flight had already evolved among birds did not preclude its later evolution in bats, which became the most numerous mammalian species. The evolution of plants did not lead to the disappearance of algae, or indeed the evolution of vascular plants to the disappearance of mosses. ~ Nick Lane

The common embryological origin of the endothelium and blood
cells perhaps explains why many cytokines that control hematopoiesis are released by the vascular endothelium. ~ Dee Unglaub Silverthorn

I'll catch any rose in my vase-shaped heart, then process it through my vascular system, until there's nothing left. ~ Will Advise

One of the advantages of having a binary vascular system was that he could always pump his blood faster than normal if he chose to, raising his body temperature at will. ~ Marcus Sedgwick

The hemorrhages in vitamin K deficiency develop in this way that minute vascular lesions caused by minor mechanical trauma are not closed by rapid clotting, as is the case in normal animals. ~ Henrik Dam

The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828) ~ Karl Ernst Von Baer

You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. ~ Rainbow Rowell

The vascular-system poster did, however, include a small 'female pelvis' off to one side, and me and my female pelvis were grateful for small mercies. ~ Caroline Criado Perez