Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many causes-riotous living, too strenuous athletics, brain fatigue, disease, any undue strain on the human corporation. To repair damage to worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself, the limbs, the skin. From the terminal arterioles tiny capillaries suck this...