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In the minutes before taking the stage, Caminiti eats Raisinets—a sugar rush adds definition and opens the veins for increased vascularity.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018

Beneath the skin, a beak has high vascularity and is uninsulated; if the bird's blood is hotter than the surrounding air, the heat will flow from the beak into the surrounding air.

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2012

Necrosis and sloughing of the periosteum itself may also happen, but as the extreme vascularity of the membrane is a fairly strong safeguard against that it is of only rare occurrence.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

If some freedom of movement is allowed, acute inflammation resulting in nature's provisional swelling soon develops and repair is hastened because of increased vascularity.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

It is in this way: We have only to refer to the chapter on anatomy to see that the whole of the foot is covered with a tissue of extreme vascularity.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton