micrangium

English

Noun

micrangium (plural micrangiums or micrangia)

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) A capillary.
   • 1984, He-Guang Wu, De-Cheng Luo, Chinese Medicine Modern Chinese Medicine, Volume 2:

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

   • 1985, China Report: Science and Technology - Issues 17-20, page 122:

     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:

   • 2006, Hoy Ping Yee Chan, Acupuncture for Stroke Rehabilitation: Three Decades of Information, →ISBN, page 69:

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

   • 2010, Ying Xia, Xiaoding Cao, Gen-Cheng Wu, Acupuncture Therapy for Neurological Diseases: A Neurobiological View, →ISBN, page 302:

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