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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vascular
adjective
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■ 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.
▪ These early studies were performed in diabetics with and without clinical evidence of vascular disease.
▪ Most of the patients studied were free of clinically detectable vascular disease.
▪ This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in the development of vascular disease.
▪ To introduce the postoperative medical and nursing care of patients with peripheral vascular disease. 6.
▪ Although platelet thromboxane generation was elevated in diabetics without clinical evidence of vascular disease, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
▪ Clinical evidence of vascular disease was found in 38.3 percent of patients and 30 percent were hyperlipidaemic.
endothelium
▪ Moreover, ICAM-1 participates in the transient adhesion of leucocytes to the vascular endothelium and mediates, in part, granulocyte extravasation.
▪ Results Deposits of formazan were found in the colonic epithelium, vascular endothelium, and infiltrating mononuclear cells.
▪ In addition, both ICAMs are expressed at low levels on resting vascular endothelium.
▪ Hybridisation signals were also detected in the vascular endothelium of pulmonary arteries, especially those with severe arteriopathy.
▪ The dye was reduced by epithelial cells, vascular endothelium, and infiltrating mononuclear cells of the mucosa.
▪ Its reduction by vascular endothelium and infiltrating mononuclear cells was greater in inflamed mucosa.
▪ The vascular endothelium seems to produce superoxide in the inflamed mucosa, which would exacerbate tissue injury in ulcerative colitis.
▪ The vascular endothelium may be essential for the occurence of inflammatory or immunological phenomena.
headache
▪ But about 8 percent are vascular headaches, caused by the excessive dilation of blood vessels in the brain.
▪ Migraines are a particularly intense kind of vascular headache.
▪ Occupational History Stressful work situations are often a factor in muscle-contraction or vascular headaches.
▪ Birth control pills may cause or aggravate vascular headaches as well as predispose the patient to cerebral venous or arterial occlusions.
plant
▪ The Eriophorum is frequent or abundant in bog pools dominated by Sphagnum species in which other vascular plant species only occur occasionally.
▪ Growth and maturation of vascular plants are often controlled by light, usually in conjunction with temperature.
▪ This contained a list of 690 species, segregates in critical genera and hybrids of vascular plants.
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▪ vascular tissue
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▪ An auto-immune disease ensued, with destruction of nervous and vascular tissue.
▪ In the fundus and corpus of the stomach an increase in superficial vascular pattern was visible.
▪ Intermittent Headache Headaches separated by period of days or weeks usually fall into the vascular or muscle-contraction categories.
▪ Moreover, ICAM-1 participates in the transient adhesion of leucocytes to the vascular endothelium and mediates, in part, granulocyte extravasation.
▪ Most of the patients studied were free of clinically detectable vascular disease.
▪ The device uses radiation to destroy tumors and vascular malformations with pinpoint accuracy.
▪ This would enable prospective studies to be performed to determine the importance of platelet function in the development of vascular disease.
▪ To introduce the postoperative medical and nursing care of patients with peripheral vascular disease. 6.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vascular

Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See Vase, and cf. Vessel.]

  1. (Biol.)

    1. Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.

    2. Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.

    3. Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.

  2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the ph[ae]nogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.

    Vascular plants (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class Pteridophyta. Cf. Cellular plants, Cellular.

    Vascular system (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants.

    Vascular tissue (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes.

    Water vascular system (Zo["o]l.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vascular

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."

Wiktionary
vascular

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.

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vascular

adj. of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids; "vascular constriction"; "a vascular bundle" [ant: avascular]

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Vascular
  1. REDIRECT Blood vessel
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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.