| 单词 | vascular |
| 释义 | vascular (once / 8395 pages) adj Use the adjective vascular when you're talking about blood vessels. One side effect of long-term smoking is vascular disease. The word vascular comes up in medicine and anatomy whenever there's discussion of the circulatory system, the series of vessels carrying blood around the body. Plants have vascular systems too, to carry water and nutrients throughout their systems. The word vascular comes from the Latin vascularis, "of or pertaining to vessels or tubes." WORD FAMILYvascular: vascularise, vascularity, vascularize+/vascularise: vascularisation, vascularised/vascularize: vascularization, vascularized USAGE EXAMPLESThe cause was vascular dementia, said her daughter, Karen Moore. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) His family said the cause was vascular dementia. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) One idea is that the changes have been largely due to shifts in fluid occupying the body's vascular spaces. BBC(Nov 28, 2016) adj of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids vascular constriction a vascular bundle Ant avascular without blood vessels |
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