English

Noun

bloodvessel ‎(plural bloodvessels)

1. Alternative form of blood vessel
   • 1837, Alexander Watson, A medico-legal treatise on homicide by external violence, etc (page 54)

     But there can be very little doubt, I conceive, of a bloodvessel having burst in the head, which caused a gradual effusion of blood, and proved fatal; since in this case there was not time for inflammation causing fatal effusion to have taken place.