How to Use vascular in a Sentence

vascular

adjective
  • The vascular system can also move warm blood to what Dr. Hedge calls the shell of the body, such as the skin and limbs.
    Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
  • That disease plugs up the vascular system and the plant dies.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Once in the live oak, the fungus cells grow to block the vascular system and kill the infected live oak.
    San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The antlers of both bucks were still in full velvet, which is a vascular skin that bucks will begin shedding in the fall.
    Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2017
  • In all 12 cases, the cause of death was found within the lungs or the pulmonary vascular system.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 May 2020
  • Looking at the leaves, the tree appears to have some kind of vascular infection, as well.
    oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Miller's surgery called for vascular specialists to be called in to repair the damage to his leg.
    Scooby Axson, SI.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Or ask a neighbor, who will tell you that these guys suck the juices from plants' vascular systems and drain the plant of some of its nutrients.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 5 July 2018
  • The group showed that in a mouse model, the vaccine did increase vascular leakage.
    Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The results of a vascular laser can vary depending on the patient.
    Jessica Cruel, SELF, 29 June 2017
  • These types of vascular tumors are benign, but mine had burst, and blood was pooling in my brain.
    Danielle Soviero, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
  • The cause was atherosclerotic vascular disease, said a son-in-law, James Onken.
    Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • An ultrasound confirmed the bleeding, and a vascular surgeon was called in to try to stop it.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • The near-boiling water causes all the water in the vascular elements to heat up and expand and force the air out.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Nitrogen might help, even to the point of having the arborist inject it into the vascular system of the tree.
    Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 11 June 2020
  • An X-ray found no fractures or vascular injuries in her hand, which was put in a finger splint.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Apply Cut Vine and Stump Killer to a fresh pruning cut, and it gets translocated through the vascular system into the roots to kill the plant.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Today, the hospital’s heart and vascular unit is named for him.
    David Heath, USA Today, 17 June 2021
  • Pits on these tracheids (black) allow water to pass in and out of the cells and into the vascular system.
    Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Guests at Arcis must have their retinas scanned to go through the first door, then present their bare forearms for a vascular scan at a second door.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • Is that an aneurysm waiting to burst, or a harmless vascular variant?
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The cause was vascular dementia, said Tony Platt, a longtime friend.
    New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • The cause was vascular dementia, said a daughter, Karen Miller.
    Staff Reports, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The fungus spreads like proverbial wildfire, clogging up the plant’s vascular system, and killing it.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The cause was vascular dementia, said a son, Rolf McQueary.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The vascular neck restraint puts pressure on the carotid arteries, reducing blood flow to the brain.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Some physicians have critiqued the focus on more milder vascular disease, which can have a range of symptoms.
    Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The class will cover what vascular dementia is, its causes and what folks can do to help prevent the disease.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • These events, in turn, are risk factors for dementia, namely vascular dementia.
    Rohan Rajeev, STAT, 31 July 2024
  • Unfortunately, my mother, who is suffering from late-stage vascular dementia, had fallen and was on her way to the hospital to have her shoulder checked.
    Kendra MacDonald, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024

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