Definitions
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- adjective (Anat.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
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- adjective not
vascular
Etymologies
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Examples
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Local variation in productivity is also associated with dramatic shifts in the relative abundance of plant functional types including both vascular and nonvascular plants (sections 7.3 and 7.4.1).
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First of all, if the patient is asymptomatic, has no known, CHF, CKD, or stroke, for a nonvascular surgery, I wouldn't not even recommend stressing the guy.
Oil and Water (Sometimes): Guidelines and Real Life 1 Dinosaur 2009
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A general long-term (10 years or more) response to environmental manipulations at sites in subarctic Sweden and in Alaska was a decrease in total nonvascular plant biomass and particularly the biomass of lichens [38] (Fig. 7.23).
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Total nonvascular plant biomass and particularly the biomass of lichens decreased in response to 10 years or more of environmental manipulations at sites in subarctic Sweden and in Alaska.
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The dominant C input to arctic ecosystems is from photosynthesis in vascular and nonvascular plants, which in total comprises GEP.
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Much disagreement has also stemmed from new discoveries about the structure of bacteria and certain other microscopic creatures, which were once assumed to be structurally similar to nonvascular plants but which are now known to be considerably different in structure.
ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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After all, nitric oxide released from such nerves would be expected to diffuse into the nearby vascular and nonvascular smooth muscle and cause relaxation.
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While studying the relaxant effects of nitric oxide on vascular and nonvascular smooth muscle from corpus cavernosum erectile tissue, we realized that the naturally occurring physiological neurotransmitter involved in the erectile response in mammals was unknown.
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Such an effect could account for the marked relaxation of both vascular and nonvascular smooth muscle that accompanies the erectile response and allows for the engorgement of blood in the sinusoidal or trabecular network of blood vessels in the corpus cavernosum.
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No doubt many cases wherein fibrillary fracture of ligaments (sprain) takes place some lameness is caused, but because of the dense, comparatively nonvascular nature of these structures, little if any manifestation, except lameness, is evident.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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