vascular

English

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris, from Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈvæskjələ/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈvæskjəlɚ/

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Adjective

vascular (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids
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     Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

Synonyms

• angio-

Antonyms

• avascular

Derived terms

• antivascular
• biliovascular
• bivascular
• bronchovascular
• cardiovascular
• cerebrovascular
• circumvascular
• craniovascular
• dermovascular
• dysvascular
• endovascular
• extravascular
• fibrovascular
• gastrovascular
• gliovascular
• haemovascular
• hemovascular
• hydrovascular
• hypervascular
• hypovascular
• immunovascular
• intervascular
• intravascular
• isovascular
• juxtavascular
• lymphovascular
• macrovascular
• meningovascular
• microvascular
• monovascular
• multivascular
• myovascular
• neovascular
• nephrovascular
• neurovascular
• nonvascular
• non-vascular plant
• normovascular
• oligovascular
• paravascular
• perivascular
• polyvascular
• postvascular
• prevascular
• protovascular
• provascular
• pseudovascular
• renovascular
• retinovascular
• stromavascular
• stromovascular
• subvascular
• thrombovascular
• transvascular
• trigeminovascular
• univascular
• unvascular
• uveovascular
• vascular bundle
• vascular dementia
• vascular endothelial growth factor
• vascularisation
• vascularity
• vascularization
• vascularize
• vascularly
• vascular plant
• vascular stroma
• vascular tissue
• water vascular system

Translations

of, pertaining to or containing vessels

• Belarusian: сасу́дзісты (sasúdzisty)
• Bulgarian: съдов (sǎdov)
• Catalan: vascular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脉管的, 导管的, 血管的

• Czech: cévní (cs)
• Finnish: verenkierto- (fi), vaskulaarinen (fi)
• French: vasculaire (fr)
• Galician: vascular (gl)
• Georgian: სისხლძარღვოვანი (sisxlʒarɣvovani), ვასკულარული (vasḳularuli), სისხლძარღვიანი (sisxlʒarɣviani)
• German: vaskulär (de), vaskular (de)
• Greek: αγγειακός (el) (angeiakós)
• Hungarian: vaszkuláris (hu), érrendszeri (hu)
• Interlingua: vascular
• Irish: soithíoch, feadánach
• Italian: vascolare (it)
• Persian: آوندی (fa) (âvandi), رگی (fa) (ragi), عروقی (fa) ('oruqi)
• Polish: naczyniowy (pl)
• Portuguese: vascular (pt)
• Romanian: vascular (ro)
• Russian: сосу́дистый (ru) (sosúdistyj), васкуля́рный (ru) (vaskuljárnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmarach
• Spanish: vascular (es)
• Turkish: vasküler
• Ukrainian: суди́нний (sudýnnyj), васкуля́рний (uk) (vaskuljárnyj) (rare)

See also

• Blood vessel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vāsculāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəs.kuˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəs.kuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vas.kuˈlaɾ]
• Homophone: bascular
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Adjective

vascular m or f (masculine and feminine plural vasculars)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

• “vascular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vascular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “vascular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vascular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From New Latin vasculāris.

Adjective

vascular m or f (plural vasculares)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

• “vascular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Interlingua

Adjective

vascular (not comparable)

1. vascular

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vāsculāris.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaʁ/ [vas.kuˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaʁ/ [vas.kuˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /vaʃ.kuˈlaʁ/ [vaʃ.kuˈlaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vas.kuˈlaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐʃ.kuˈlaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐʃ.kuˈlaɾ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐʃ.kuˈlaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐʃ.kuˈla.ɾi/

Adjective

vascular m or f (plural vasculares)

1. (anatomy) vascular (of, pertaining to or containing blood vessels)

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vasculaire.

Adjective

vascular m or n (feminine singular vasculară, masculine plural vasculari, feminine and neuter plural vasculare)

1. vascular

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	vascular		vasculară		vasculari	vasculare
	definite	vascularul		vasculara		vascularii	vascularele
genitive- dative	indefinite	vascular		vasculare		vasculari	vasculare
	definite	vascularului		vascularei		vascularilor	vascularelor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vasculāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baskuˈlaɾ/ [bas.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: vas‧cu‧lar
• Homophone: bascular

Adjective

vascular m or f (masculine and feminine plural vasculares)

1. vascular

Derived terms

• cardiovascular

Further reading

• “vascular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10