vascular
adjective
pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
vascularity
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a word derived from
vascular.
Example Sentences
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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 Harry Caulton Reeks
Where light air is circulated instead of heavy blood, great vascularity serves only to make existence more ethereal.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by William Chambers
There was no peculiar inflammation or vascularity of any other part of the brain.
From The Dog by William Youatt
