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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The surgery was performed by vascular surgeon Dr. Gregory Pearl in Dallas and removed the aneurysm and repaired the artery.
    Tim Booth, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • Our bodies need a vascular system to bring oxygen and nutrients to the cells and organs.
    Geri Stengel, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Cook said there have been two instances of officers using vascular neck restraints in the last five years.
    Dallas News, 9 June 2020
  • Early researchers thought it might be used to improve the vascular system.
    Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2022
  • At the graft site, the plants form a kind of scar, or callus, that reestablishes the flow of water and nutrients through vascular tissues across the wound and sometimes gives rise to new shoots.
    Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Based on the highly vascular nature of the ear, there is still intermittent bleeding requiring a dressing to be in place.
    Simmone Shah, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • Measurements are broken down into the following categories: body composition, ECG, electrodermal activity, heart rate, height, vascular age, and weight.
    PCMAG, 24 July 2024

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