vascularize

especially British, vas·cu·lar·ise

[vas-kyuh-luh-rahyz]

verb (used without object)

Biology.

vascularized, vascularizing 

1. (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.

verb (used with object)

Biology, Surgery.

vascularized, vascularizing 

1. to supply (an organ or tissue) with blood vessels.

Other Word Forms

• vascularization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of vascularize¹

First recorded in 1890–95; vascular + -ize

Example Sentences

Although eye transplants have been done in rodents with some success, the animals’ eyes are much smaller and less vascularized than those of humans.

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Earlier this year, for example, scientists 3D-printed a working, vascularized heart using human cells.

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That’s because these vascularized tissues are hard to build up in traditional solid layer-by-layer 3D printing without constructing supporting scaffolding that can later prove impossible to remove.

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For the first time in recorded history, scientists have created a working, vascularized engineered heart using human cells by printing it in 3D.

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In September, George Church of Harvard Medical School — it was he who delayed trying to give brain organoids a blood supply — told a small meeting that his lab had vascularized brain organoids.

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