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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, in anatomy, "pertaining to conveyance or circulation of fluids," from Modern Latin vascularis "of or pertaining to vessels or tubes," from Latin vasculum "a small vessel," diminutive of vas "vessel."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN disease ▪ Any patient who has vascular disease should be on long-term aspirin. ▪ This occurs in extensive bilateral frontal lobe dysfunction and is usually due to vascular disease , hydrocephalus, or massive neoplasia. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids; "vascular constriction"; "a vascular bundle" [ant: avascular ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See Vase , and cf. Vessel.] (Biol.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
REDIRECT Blood vessel
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context anatomy English) Of, pertaining to, or containing vessels that conduct or circulate fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant.
Usage examples of vascular.
One of the best agents employed to make a decided impression upon the vascular system, subdue inflammation, and modify its action, is the fluid extract of veratrum viride, administered in full doses, and repeated until the system shows its effects in a decided manner.
We can do an angiogram of the heart, or the kidneys, whatever we want, to diagnose tumors or vascular disease.
Especially since the initial diagnosis in each case was a hereditary vascular malformation, one being a Berry aneurysm, or sacular weakening of an artery that was leaking blood, and the other a capsular angioma, same as Kathleen Sullivan had.
He had dealt with the coleoptera and he was deep in the vascular cryptogams before the frigate turned her head north at last.
And that has a profound effect on all kinds of vascular problems, from heart attacks to erectile dysfunction.
Close to the neck of the bladder is a triangular space, on which the mucous membrane is smoother, and devoid of folds, or rugae, and which is far more sensitive and vascular than other portions of the mucous membrane lining this organ.
On these white areas bright red spots were conspicuous, due to telangiectasis, and there were also some stellate vascular spots and strife interspersed among the pigment.
If there is febrile excitement, a hard pulse, frequent and throbbing, and if there is headache, thirst, parched lips, hot and dry skin, as is sometimes the case, then menorrhagia is due to an augmented action of the heart and arteries, and the indication of treatment is to diminish vascular action.
Out of red blood, blood-vessels are formed, and from the incipient development of the heart follow faint lines of arteries, and the engineers of nutrition survey a circulatory system, perfecting the vascular connections by supplementing the arteries with a complete net-work of veins and capillaries.
There was slight vascular intercommunication of the livers and independence of the two peritoneal cavities and the intestines.
The refrain thundered so loudly within his skull that the meager assembly of platelets left to guard the vascular borders of his brain might be fatally dislodged by the sheer vibrations of the thunderous noise.
On this view of the origin of nyctitropism we can understand how it is that a few plants, widely distributed throughout the Vascular series, have been able to acquire the habit of placing the blades of their leaves vertically at night, that is, of sleeping,--a fact otherwise inexplicable.
They are little vascular prominences of the mucous membrane, arising from the interior surface of the small intestine.
The independent origin of this conducting system is of great interest for comparison with the vascular system of the sporophyte of the higher plants.
The strictum and laxum, the increased and diminished action of the vessels, out of which medical theories and methods of treatment have grown up, have yielded to the doctrine of local cell-communities, belonging to this or that vascular district, from which they help themselves, as contractors are wont to do from the national treasury.