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intravasate

intravasate verb: to invade a blood vessel or lymphatic vessel.

Verb

intravasate (third-person singular simple present intravasates, present participle intravasating, simple past and past participle intravasated)

  1. To invade a blood vessel or lymphatic vessel.
    • For blood vessel-borne metastasis, disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) intravasate into blood vessels and survive in the circulation.2015 June 20, Lei Zhou et al., “The roles of microRNAs in the regulation of tumor metastasis”, in Cell & Bioscience, volume 5, →DOI

Forms of intravasate

third-person singular presentintravasates
present participleintravasating
past participleintravasated
pastintravasated

Origin of intravasate

From intra- + vas + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about intravasate

What does intravasate mean?
Intravasate means to invade a blood vessel or lymphatic vessel.
What part of speech is intravasate?
Intravasate is a verb.
What is the past tense of intravasate?
The past tense of intravasate is intravasated.

Words near intravasate in the dictionary

  1. intravariability
  2. intravariceal
  3. intravaricosity
  4. intravarietal
  5. intravasal
  6. intravasate
  7. intravasated
  8. intravasates
  9. intravasating
  10. intravasation
  11. intravasations

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