How to Use vasculature in a Sentence

vasculature

noun
  • For vasculature, this translates to the costs of making veins and pumping fluids through them.
    Emily Singer, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2013
  • But there is not a lot of good literature on pig vasculature.
    Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • My body tried to correct this by flooding my vasculature with a protein that constricts blood vessels.
    Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • Years of severe fasting, not for health but for social change, had damaged his vasculature system long ago.
    Christopher Rosen, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • If the interstellar probe makes a close pass by the sun and pushes hydrogen into its shield’s vasculature, the hydrogen will expand and explode from a nozzle at the end of the pipe.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Volunteers will help to reconstruct a 3D map of Alzheimer’s brain vasculature, similar to how neurons are mapped in EyeWire.
    Guest, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2016
  • Bigger appendages also allow growing larger vasculature that brings more blood, and thus more body heat to dispel.
    Lina Zeldovich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
  • For example, someone who has headaches or brain fog may have a virus that resides in their brain tissue, whereas someone with cardiovascular symptoms may have virus present in the heart, lungs or vasculature.
    Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The patient in this report had inhaled helium from a high pressure cylinder, causing blood vessels in his lungs to rupture and allowing the gas to gain access to the pulmonary vasculature and subsequently to his brain.
    Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2012
  • This study focuses on two types of cells in particular: endothelial cells which line the blood vessels and pericytes which play an important support function for the vasculature system throughout the body.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The surgeon is able to look directly into a patient during a procedure seeing internal anatomy under their skin in 3D (organs, bones, vasculature, etc.).
    Charlie Fink, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Before Sestan’s team adjusted the settings, the fluid might not completely permeate the vasculature of the organ, leaving parts of the brain essentially untreated.
    Matthew Shaer, New York Times, 2 July 2019
  • This pattern can be found scattered throughout nature and structural engineering: in the brain’s cerebral vasculature, arrays of fungi living underground, the convoluted shape of a foraging slime mold and the metal bracings of the Eiffel Tower.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2013
  • The problem is always assembly—getting a variety of cell types to neatly arrange into intricate and functional structures while allowing life-sustaining vasculature to permeate the tissue is tough.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 July 2017
  • The most common persistent symptoms include arthritis, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and vasculature issues such as atrial fibrillation, cardiomyopathies and blood clotting.
    Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020

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