Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of vascularizing; the formation of vessels, especially blood vessels.
- noun Medicine An abnormal or pathological formation of blood vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of becoming vascular, as by the formation of new bloodvessels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The process of becoming vascular, or the condition of being vascular; as, the
vascularization of cartilege.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the process of being
vascularized . - noun medicine the formation of blood vessels and capillaries in living tissue
- noun botany the formation of leaf
veins
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the body volume increases, however, the relative surface area decreases and specialized organs that concentrate blood vessels (vascularization) in pockets of increased surface area, achieved by folding or filaments, become necessary to extract sufficient oxygen from the surrounding medium.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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As the body volume increases, however, the relative surface area decreases and specialized organs that concentrate blood vessels vascularization in pockets of increased surface area, achieved by folding or filaments, become necessary to extract sufficient oxygen from the surrounding medium.
Anatomy of a breath—Part 1 AYDIN 2009
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There may be useful growth response information in such parameters as cell-wall thickness, cell volume, cambium vascularization, or lignin/cellulose ratios, etc.
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The primary requirement for a body appendage or evagination to be identified as a gill or ctenidium is the high vascularization of the respiratory surface.
Archive 2006-08-01 AYDIN 2006
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SANUWAVE's portfolio of products and product candidates activate biologic signaling and angiogenic responses, including new vascularization and microcirculatory improvement, helping to restore the body's normal healing processes and regeneration.
unknown title 2011
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SANUWAVE's portfolio of products and product candidates activate biologic signaling and angiogenic responses, including new vascularization and microcirculatory improvement, helping to restore the body's normal healing processes and regeneration.
unknown title 2011
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SANUWAVE's portfolio of products and product candidates activate biologic signaling and angiogenic responses, including new vascularization and microcirculatory improvement, helping to restore the body's normal healing processes and regeneration.
unknown title 2011
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SANUWAVE's portfolio of products and product candidates activate biologic signaling and angiogenic responses, including new vascularization and microcirculatory improvement, helping to restore the body's normal healing processes and regeneration.
unknown title 2011
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They're also taking on the challenge of vascularization-stimulating the growth of blood vessels that will enable the engineered tissues to survive outside the special bioreactors that the researchers now use to keep them alive by bathing them in a life-sustaining cocktail of nutrients and oxygen.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Kato M, Patel MS, Levasseur R, Lobov I, Chang BH, et al. (2002) Cbfa1-independent decrease in osteoblast proliferation, osteopenia, and persistent embryonic eye vascularization in mice deficient in Lrp5, a Wnt coreceptor.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jochen Schulze et al. 2010
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