blood vessel

1. 1.

   a vessel in which blood circulates

   Broadervessel

   Narrowerarteryductus arteriosusvasa vasorumveincapillary

   Part ofcirculatory system

Questions about blood vessel

What does blood vessel mean?

blood vessel means "a vessel in which blood circulates".

Is blood vessel a common word?

blood vessel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.