Etymology
Origin of vascularized
First recorded in 1955–60; vascularize + -ed 2
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Although eye transplants have been done in rodents with some success, the animals’ eyes are much smaller and less vascularized than those of humans.
From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023
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.
From Scientific American • Nov. 6, 2017
The choroid is a layer of highly vascularized connective tissue that provides a blood supply to the eyeball.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The kidneys are well vascularized, receiving about 25 percent of the cardiac output at rest.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Primary keratitis may be ulcerative or non-ulcerative, superficial or deep, diffuse or circumscribed, vascularized or non-vascularized.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
