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hypervascular

hypervascular adjective: extremely vascular; having many blood vessels.

Adjective

hypervascular (not comparable)

  1. Extremely vascular; having many blood vessels.
    • The mean HU and standard deviation (SD) were measured in the liver, the hypervascular portion of the VX2 tumor which represented hypervascular tumors, and the central necrotic area of the VX2 tumor which represented hypovascular tumors in 140kVp images with I 300 as a reference standard and in...2015 July 24, “Possible Contrast Media Reduction with Low keV Monoenergetic Images in the Detection of Focal Liver Lesions: A Dual-Energy CT Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of hypervascular

From hyper- + vascular.

Words formed from hypervascular

Questions about hypervascular

What does hypervascular mean?
Hypervascular means extremely vascular; having many blood vessels.
What part of speech is hypervascular?
Hypervascular is an adjective.

Words near hypervascular in the dictionary

  1. hypervariable
  2. hypervariables
  3. hypervariance
  4. hypervariances
  5. hypervariation
  6. hypervascular
  7. hypervascularised
  8. hypervascularity
  9. hypervascularization
  10. hypervascularizations
  11. hypervascularized

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