vascular
pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
Origin of vascular
1- Also vas·cu·lose [vas-kyuh-lohs], /ˈvæs kyəˌloʊs/, vas·cu·lous [vas-kyuh-luhs]. /ˈvæs kyə ləs/.
Other words from vascular
- vas·cu·lar·i·ty [vas-kyuh-lar-i-tee], /ˌvæs kyəˈlær ɪ ti/, noun
- vas·cu·lar·ly, adverb
- hy·per·vas·cu·lar, adjective
- hy·per·vas·cu·lar·i·ty, noun
- in·ter·vas·cu·lar, adjective
- non·vas·cu·lar, adjective
- non·vas·cu·lar·ly, adverb
- non·vas·cu·lose, adjective
- non·vas·cu·lous, adjective
- un·vas·cu·lar, adjective
- un·vas·cu·lar·ly, adverb
- un·vas·cu·lous, adjective
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How to use vascular in a sentence
Penises, like lungs, are highly vascular organs, and the virus latches on to endothelial cells that line blood vessels.
These urologists are setting the record straight about penises and COVID | Hallie Lieberman | December 3, 2021 | Popular-ScienceA holiday conifer stays alive by drawing liquid up through vessels called vascules into the tree’s vascular system, which then absorbs water and nutrients.
How to keep a Christmas tree fresh for as long as possible | Dan Seitz | November 29, 2021 | Popular-SciencePost, a vascular cardiologist, used to be one of those scientists.
Together, phloem and xylem make up a plant’s vascular system.
Doctors are finding heart conditions and vascular diseases that have deteriorated rapidly without medical intervention, growing cancers that went undetected for months, and mental impairments that have grown more acute.
Plunging case rates spur cautious optimism in D.C. region. But the trauma is far from over. | Rebecca Tan, John D. Harden | May 14, 2021 | Washington Post
Back home, he became the chief of thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital.
The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life | Michael Daly | January 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut a raft of studies now shows that saturated fat does not increase your likelihood of vascular or heart disease.
He has English and Italian blood in his veins, and that vascular mixture works him up beautifully.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusHe describes the vascular bundles of the stem as "fibres" perforated by numerous "pores."
Insectivorous plants and the rarer vascular cryptogams were specially well represented.
The diverticula from the alimentary cavity form the water-vascular system and the somatic and splanchnic layers of mesoblast.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourThe cavity of the diverticula after the separation of the water-vascular system, forms the body-cavity.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland Balfour
British Dictionary definitions for vascular
/ (ˈvæskjʊlə) /
biology anatomy of, relating to, or having vessels that conduct and circulate liquids: a vascular bundle; the blood vascular system
Origin of vascular
1Derived forms of vascular
- vascularity (ˌvæskjʊˈlærɪtɪ), noun
- vascularly, adverb
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Scientific definitions for vascular
[ văs′kyə-lər ]
Relating to the vessels of the body, especially the arteries and veins, that carry blood and lymph.
Relating to or having xylem and phloem, plant tissues highly specialized for carrying water, dissolved nutrients, and food from one part of a plant to another. Ferns and all seed-bearing plants have vascular tissues; bryophytes, such as mosses, do not. See more at phloem xylem.
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