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pericollateral

pericollateral adjective: surrounding a collateral artery.

Adjective

pericollateral (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding a collateral artery.
    • This is also supported by the remarkably similar phenotypes of mice deficient for the cognate receptor of MCP-1, CCR-2 [5 ], and MK2 in the mouse model of HLI. Both show strongly impaired growth of collaterals and pericollateral recruitment of macrophages associated with marked impairment of...2015 October 3, “MAP-Kinase Activated Protein Kinase 2 Links Endothelial Activation and Monocyte/macrophage Recruitment in Arteriogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of pericollateral

From peri- + collateral.

Questions about pericollateral

What does pericollateral mean?
Pericollateral means surrounding a collateral artery.
What part of speech is pericollateral?
Pericollateral is an adjective.

Words near pericollateral in the dictionary

  1. pericoeruleus
  2. pericoital
  3. pericoitally
  4. pericolic
  5. pericolitis
  6. pericollateral
  7. pericolonic
  8. pericolorectal
  9. pericolpate
  10. pericolporate
  11. pericombobulation

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