vascular
/ˈvæskjələ/US/ˈvæskjəlɚ/
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vascular adjective: relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids.
Adjective
vascular (not comparable)
- Relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids
- 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...2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016, page 98
- Synonyms:
- angio-
vascular meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vascular in Hindi
- संवहनी
vascular in Tamil
- இரத்தநாள சம்பந்தமாக, சத்து நீரோட்ட
vascular in Marathi
- रक्तवहिन्यासंबंधी
vascular in Urdu
- نالی دار, نس دار, رگ دار
More languagesFewer languages
- vascular in Bengali
- ভাস্কুলার
- vascular in Telugu
- వాస్కులర్
- vascular in Malayalam
- വാസ്കുലർ
- vascular in Kannada
- ನಾಳೀಯ
- vascular in Gujarati
- વેસ્ક્યુલર
- vascular in Odia
- ଭାସ୍କୁଲାର
- vascular in Nepali
- संवहनी, भास्कुलर
- vascular in Persian
- آوندی âvandi, رگی ragi, عروقی 'oruqi
Examples of vascular in a sentence
- We'd better lay off the carby foods. It'll help protect our vascular health.
- This population of cells continues to codistribute closely with venous elements and remains excluded from a vascular regions in the developing wing bud.
- The choroid is characterized by Dilated and Attenuated (DA) type (arrowheads), choroidal vascular dilation, and choroidal hyperthickening.
Synonyms of vascular
Antonyms
Origin of vascular
From New Latin vasculāris, from Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas (“vessel”).
Words formed from vascular
- antivascular
- biliovascular
- bivascular
- bronchovascular
- cardiovascular
- cerebrovascular
- circumvascular
- craniovascular
- dermovascular
- dysvascular
- endovascular
- extravascular
- fibrovascular
- gastrovascular
- gliovascular
- haemovascular
- hemovascular
- hydrovascular
- hypervascular
- hypovascular
- immunovascular
- intervascular
- intravascular
- isovascular
- juxtavascular
- lymphovascular
- macrovascular
- meningovascular
- microvascular
- monovascular
- multivascular
- myovascular
- neovascular
- nephrovascular
- neurovascular
- nonvascular
- non-vascular plant
- normovascular
- oligovascular
- paravascular
- perivascular
- polyvascular
- postvascular
- prevascular
- protovascular
- provascular
- pseudovascular
- renovascular
- retinovascular
- stromavascular
- stromovascular
- subvascular
- thrombovascular
- transvascular
- trigeminovascular
- univascular
- unvascular
- uveovascular
- vascular bundle
- vascular dementia
Phrases with vascular
Questions about vascular
- What does vascular mean?
- Vascular means relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids.
- What is vascular in Hindi?
- Vascular in Hindi is संवहनी. See Vascular meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vascular?
- Vascular is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vascular?
- Vascular is pronounced /ˈvæskjələ/ (UK).
Words near vascular in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vascular (page history and authors); vascular (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vascular (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vascular (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vascular (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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