vascular
English
Adjective
vascular (not comparable)
- (anatomy) 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.
- 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
- Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
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Translations
of, pertaining to or containing vessels
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See also
Blood vessel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vascular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vascular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “vascular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vascular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Interlingua
Portuguese
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin vascularius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baskuˈlaɾ/
- Homophone: bascular
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vascular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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