How to Use microvascular in a Sentence

microvascular

adjective

• Shortness of breath, fatigue or pain in the jaw, left arm, back or neck may be warning signs of microvascular dysfunction or an imminent heart attack.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• Garten’s first study used a different technique that assesses microvascular function, which refers to the function of the smaller arteries that branch off the big ones and thread into the muscles.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2020
• That's a concern during the pandemic, Wittstein added, because Covid-19 damages the lungs and also causes microvascular function, where the small blood vessels of the body fail to work properly.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• As Patel writes, the second stage of the latest ear transplant, known as microvascular free tissue transfer, only became popular in the late 1990s.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
• This type of surgery is called microvascular reconstruction surgery.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
• Recently, a study by the National Institutes of Health linked Covid and the body’s inflammatory response to microvascular blood-vessel damage in the brain.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• According to Goldberg, that higher rate of microvascular dysfunction might help explain why women are more prone to blood vessel constriction when stressed.
  — Amy Norton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Scott Baio‘s wife Renee Baio revealed on Saturday that she was diagnosed with microvascular brain disease.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Scott Baio's wife was diagnosed with microvascular brain disease in October 2017, the couple confirmed Saturday.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2018
• In fact, cognitive decline and microvascular dysfunction are essentially universal consequences of long term smoking for everyone.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• Low levels of estrogen after menopause pose a significant risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease in the smaller blood vessels (coronary microvascular disease).
  — Mayo Clinic News Network (tns), The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024