Definition of Avascular

1. Adjective. Without blood vessels.

Antonyms: Vascular

Definition of Avascular

1. Adjective. (medicine) Lacking blood vessels ¹

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Definition of Avascular

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Avascular

1. Without blood or lymphatic vessels; may be a normal state as in certain forms of cartilage, or the result of disease. Synonym: nonvascular. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avascular

avantgardism
avantgardist
avantgardistic
avantgardists
avanti
avanturine
avaram
avarice
avarices
avaricious
avariciously
avariciousness
avaritia
avarous
avas
avascular (current term)
avascular necroses
avascular necrosis
avascularities
avascularity
avascularization
avast
avatar
avatarhood
avatars
avaunce
avaunt
avaunted
avaunting

Literary usage of Avascular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"This is the usual position of the avascular area, and is sometimes marked by ... This line is often indistinguishable ; and the avascular area may be in the ..."

2. The Origin of disease: Especially of Disease Resulting from Intrinsic as by Arthur Vincent Meigs (1899)
"The muscular coat and the intima therefore are in the natural condition avascular, and as they lie between the stream of blood and the richly vascular ..."

3. Modern surgery, general and operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1910)
"The tuberculous area then becomes absolutely avascular. This avascular mass of cells is composed of what are known as epithelioid cells, and the cells ..."

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