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Answer for the clue "Blood flow ", 11 letters:
circulation

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Circulation may refer to:

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French circulation or directly from Latin circulationem (nominative circulatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of circulare "to form a circle," from circulus "small ring" (see circle (n.)). Used of blood first by William ...

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n. the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines) movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified ...

Usage examples of circulation.

In minute doses Blood-root is a valuable alterative, acting upon the biliary secretion and improving the circulation and digestion.

Keep up the circulation of his blood for years to come, and excite aphorism and anecdotes and dreams for the instruction and amusements by the action of his brain upon his mind.

They would be recorded, in all probability, in the Avifauna Journal - a small publication of limited circulation which went to keen students of bird life.

It invariably obstructs the circulation of my magnificent caudal appendage.

They cheapen the price so as to gain a circulation, which advertisers cater for.

The injection of the tumors with a fluid which causes coagulation of the blood, and which does not completely shut off the return current of the circulation through the tumors, has proved fatal in a small percentage of cases.

This consultation, which I have still in my possession, says that our blood is an elastic fluid which is liable to diminish or to increase in thickness, but never in quantity, and that my haemorrhage could only proceed from the thickness of the mass of my blood, which relieved itself in a natural way in order to facilitate circulation.

The latter possess double endowments, and not only participate in the operations of deglutition, digestion, circulation, and respiration, but are also nerves of sensation and instinctive motion.

Though the denarius was a more common coin in circulation than the sestertius, Roman accounting procedures were always expressed in sesterces.

Ergo, no need for blood to be circulated to the lungs, save to nourish the developing tissueand so the ductus arteriosus bypasses the pulmonary circulation.

Within the pulp is contained the grape sugar, which differs in some respects chemically from cane sugar, and which is taken up straightway into our circulation when eaten, without having to be changed slowly by the saliva, as is the case with cane sugar.

The circulation is loaded with effete and useless matter, the vessels being thereby weakened and distended, and the circulation retarded.

In consequence the pulse grows small and weak, and the patient cannot exercise or labor as usual, and finally the lower limbs begin to swell, then the face and body, the skin looks dusky, the appetite is impaired, the kidneys become diseased, there is difficulty in breathing, and the patient, it is said, dies of dropsy, yet dropsy was the result of a disease of the heart, which retarded the circulation and enfeebled the system, and which was actually the primary cause of death.

Impure blood, inherited scrofulous taints, enfeebled circulation, debility, either general or nervous, are all advance agents, inviting catarrhal disease, and preventing rapid recovery from an acute attack, so that a low grade of Chronic Catarrh is generally the sequence.

Shelby tucked some hairs that had fallen out of her loose ponytail and wondered if she should warn him that he was about to cut off circulation to a vital area, with the way he was now completely poking through the eyelet hole.