It also plays a number of other roles due to the presence of nerve endings, sweat glands, sebaceous glands hair follicles, and blood vessels. Nerve endings in the dermis are able to detect touch ...

"Broken capillaries are tiny blood vessels that are not truly broken but ... [and] results in more visible capillaries as the dermis (the second layer of the skin) is thinner and the capillaries ...

A dysfunction in muscle blood vessels could be to blame for the weak muscles and weight loss that most cancer patients ...

Blood vessels are like big-city highways; full of curves, branches, merges, and congestion. Yet for years, lab models ...

This apparently miraculous occurrence could be little more than intense stress causing blood vessels to rupture. People with a history of hematidrosis may have defects in the dermis, the layer of ...

Nearly half of those are due to injured blood vessels cutting off circulation to a limb. Surgeons can transplant an intact vein from somewhere else in a patient’s body to avoid amputation ...