vas
noun
a vessel or duct.
vasa
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pluralof vas.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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During pregnancy, Hayley was diagnosed with vasa previa, a dangerous condition in which the blood vessels from the placenta or umbilical cord block the birth canal.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024
But four of the five greater vasa parrots that used the tools and ingested the calcium were males.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2015
It is important to understand the difference between the glomerulus and the peritubular and vasa recta capillaries.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Larger arteries and veins contain small blood vessels within their walls known as the vasa vasorum—literally “vessels of the vessel”—to provide them with this critical exchange.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
There is marked small celled infiltration around some of the branches of the vasa vasorum and there appears to be actual absorption of the tissue elements of the middle coat.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
