Meaning

(traditional Chinese medicine) A capillary..

Example Sentences

Pulmonary vessels and micrangiums are rather intact and very rarely split as observed from tissue serial sections under electron microscope (human and guinea pig).

Based on a method of composite integral values assigned for the states of microcirculatory change detected in vivo, under the optical microscope, under the electron microscope and in post-radiation vascular penetrability, the Military Academy of Medical Sciences divided the micrangia of 20 organ tissues into 5 categories of radiation sensitivity:

These included increased permeability of the micrangium, distortion of the microscopic blood vessels, slowing of blood circulation, and irregular, shortened blood vessels.

Indeed, there has been evidence showing that acupuncture could promote tonicity of the micrangium and reduce peripheral resistance, thus improving microcirculation (Qi 1994).

Word Forms

• micrangiums
• micrangia

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