Word.ws English Dictionary

vasa vasorum

vasa vasorum noun: the capillaries that supply blood to vessels larger than 1 mm. They supply blood to the adventitia and middle tunicae.

Noun

vasa vasorum pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The capillaries that supply blood to vessels larger than 1 mm. They supply blood to the adventitia and middle tunicae.

vasa vasorum meaning in Tamil

vasa vasorum in Tamil

நாளக்குழல்

Origin of vasa vasorum

From the Latin vāsa, plural of vās (“vessel”) + vāsōrum, the genitive plural of vās (“vessel”). Meaning "vessels of the vessels."

Questions about vasa vasorum

What does vasa vasorum mean?
Vasa vasorum means the capillaries that supply blood to vessels larger than 1 mm. They supply blood to the adventitia and middle tunicae.
What is vasa vasorum in Tamil?
Vasa vasorum in Tamil is நாளக்குழல். See Vasa vasorum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vasa vasorum?
Vasa vasorum is a noun.

Words near vasa vasorum in the dictionary

  1. vasa deferentia
  2. vasa efferentia
  3. vasa murrhina
  4. vasa previa
  5. vasa recta
  6. vasa vasorum
  7. Vasai
  8. Vasai-Virar
  9. vasal
  10. vasalled
  11. vasalling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vasa vasorum (page history and authors); vasa vasorum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “vasa vasorum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/vasa_vasorum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.