vascular

English

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris, from Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas (“vessel”).

Adjective

vascular (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) 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
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Synonyms

• angio-

Antonyms

• avascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular
• cerebrovascular
• monovascular
• multivascular
• nephrovascular
• oligovascular
• postvascular
• stromavascular
• uveovascular
• vascularity

 

Translations

of, pertaining to or containing vessels

• Belarusian: сасу́дзісты (sasúdzisty)
• Bulgarian: съдов (sǎdov)
• Catalan: vascular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脉管的, 导管的, 血管的

• Czech: cévní (cs)
• Finnish: verenkierto- (fi), vaskulaarinen (fi)
• French: vasculaire (fr)
• Galician: vascular
• Georgian: სისხლძარღვოვანი (sisxlʒarɣvovani), ვასკულარული (vasḳularuli), სისხლძარღვიანი (sisxlʒarɣviani)
• German: vaskulär (de), vaskular (de)
• Greek: αγγειακός (el) (angeiakós)
• Hungarian: vaszkuláris (hu), érrendszeri
• Interlingua: vascular
• Irish: soithíoch, feadánach
• Italian: vascolare (it)
• Persian: آوندی‎ (fa) (âvandi), رگی‎ (fa) (ragi), عروقی‎ (fa) ('oruqi)
• Polish: naczyniowy (pl)
• Portuguese: vascular (pt)
• Russian: сосу́дистый (ru) (sosúdistyj), васкуля́рный (ru) (vaskuljárnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmarach
• Spanish: vascular (es)
• Turkish: vasküler
• Ukrainian: суди́нний (sudýnnyj), васкуля́рний (uk) (vaskuljárnyj) (rare)

See also

• Blood vessel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vəs.kuˈla/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bəs.kuˈla/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaɾ/
• Homophone: bascular
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Adjective

vascular (masculine and feminine plural vasculars)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

• “vascular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vascular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “vascular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vascular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Adjective

vascular m or f (plural vasculares)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

• “vascular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Adjective

vascular (not comparable)

1. vascular

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vāsculāris.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaʁ/ [vas.kuˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaʁ/ [vas.kuˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /vaʃ.kuˈlaʁ/ [vaʃ.kuˈlaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐʃ.kuˈlaɾ/

Adjective

vascular m or f (plural vasculares)

1. (anatomy) vascular (of, pertaining to or containing blood vessels)

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Romanian

Etymology

From French vasculaire.

Adjective

vascular m or n (feminine singular vasculară, masculine plural vasculari, feminine and neuter plural vasculare)

1. vascular

Declension

Declension of vascular

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	vascular		vasculară	vasculari	vasculare
	definite	vascularul		vasculara	vascularii	vascularele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	vascular		vasculare	vasculari	vasculare
	definite	vascularului		vascularei	vascularilor	vascularelor

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baskuˈlaɾ/ [bas.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: vas‧cu‧lar
• Homophone: bascular

Adjective

vascular (plural vasculares)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

• “vascular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014