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- Vascular - a. - Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
- Vascular - a. - Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
- Vascular - a. - Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
- Vascular - a. - Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
- Vascularities - pl. - of Vascularity
- Vascularity - n. - The quality or state of being vascular.
- Liver - n. - A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
- Pseudhaemal - a. - Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.
- Pulp - n. - A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.
- Spleen - n. - A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
- Pterygium - n. - A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.
- Vasodentine - n. - A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.
- Placenta - n. - The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
- Lactiferous - a. - Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.
- Transfusion - n. - The act or operation of transferring the blood of one man or animal into the vascular system of another; also, the introduction of any fluid into the blood vessels, or into a cavity of the body from which it can readily be adsorbed into the vessels; intrafusion; as, the peritoneal transfusion of milk.
- Pia mater - - The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
- Pitted - v. t. - Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
- Vascular - a. - Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
- Enderon - n. - The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.
- Vascular - a. - Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
- Endosteum - n. - The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
- Blood - n. - The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
- Velvet - n. - The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
- Pannus - n. - A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.
- Cormophyta - n. pl. - A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.
- Glans - n. - The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
- Wart - n. - A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
- Pecten - n. - A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.
- Navus - n. - A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.
- Haematosac - n. - A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.