to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular
transitive verb
2. Biology & Surgery
to supply (an organ or tissue) with blood vessels
Alsoesp Britvascularise
Derived forms
vascularization
noun
Word origin
[1890–95; vascular + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, honky-tonk, masochism, neoclassicism, plein-air-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)
Examples of 'vascularize' in a sentence
vascularize
One artery and two veins, including a superficial vein and an accompanying vein, were anastomosed to vascularize each flap.
Lifeng Liu, Xuexin Cao, Lin Zou, Zongyu Li, Xuecheng Cao, Jinfang Cai 2013, 'Extended Anterolateral Thigh Flaps for Reconstruction of Extensive Defects of theFoot and Ankle', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0083696. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, current research methods and technologies have been unable to successfully engineer and vascularize large volume tissue constructs.
Pavan Kottamasu, Ira Herman 2018, 'Engineering a microcirculation for perfusion control of ex vivo–assembled organ systems:Challenges and opportunities', Journal of Tissue Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2041731418772949. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)