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
   • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 101, number 2, page 98:

     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 passages.

   Antonym: avascular

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

of, pertaining to or containing vessels

• 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)
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• Greek: αγγειακός (el) (angeiakós)
• Interlingua: vascular
• Irish: soithíoch
• Italian: vascolare (it)
• Portuguese: vascular (pt)
• Russian: сосу́дистый (ru) (sosúdistyj), васкуля́рный (ru) (vaskuljárnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmarach
• Spanish: vascular (es)

See also

• Blood vessel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

vascular m or f (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, 2024
• “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.

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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 (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Interlingua

Adjective

vascular (not comparable)

1. vascular

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Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

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Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baskuˈlaɾ/ [bas.kuˈlaɾ]
• Homophone: bascular

Adjective

vascular m or f (masculine and feminine plural vasculares)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

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