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collateral circulation

noun

  1. circulation of blood through a network of minor vessels that become enlarged and joined with adjacent vessels when a major vein or artery is impaired, as by obstruction.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of collateral circulation1

First recorded in 1875–80
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“Your heart can actually form its own bypass from exercising, so you can develop that collateral circulation,” she said.

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“If you have coronary heart disease, even a little bit, which we all get as part of the aging process, if you are regularly exercising, your body will develop all of these blood vessels - that’s collateral circulation. That can actually help sustain life and prevent you from having a heart attack.”

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They all had a proximal vessel occlusion, a small infarct core, and moderate-to-good collateral circulation.

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When the collateral circulation is insufficient to remove the blood from a region whose efferent venous trunk is completely filled with a thrombus, the phenomena of stagnation are produced.

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Cohnheim states that after a sudden venous obstruction, in case an efficient collateral circulation does not interfere, the capillaries and small veins become distended with stagnant blood and appear as masses of red blood-corpuscles.

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