Definition of Intravasation

1. Noun. Entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel.

Generic synonyms: Harm, Hurt, Injury, Trauma

Definition of Intravasation

1. Noun. (medicine) The entry of foreign (especially cancerous) material into a blood vessel ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intravasation

intrauterine device expulsion
intrauterine devices
intrauterine fracture
intrauterine growth retardation
intrauterine pneumonia
intrauterine transfusion
intravacuolar
intravagal glomus
intravalley
intravalvular
intravasation (current term)
intravasations
intravascular
intravascular ligature
intravascular lymph
intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia
intravascularly
intraveneous
intravenous
intravenous anaesthesia
intravenous anaesthetic
intravenous anesthetic
intravenous antibiotics
intravenous cholangiography
intravenous drip

Literary usage of Intravasation

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

1. The Cincinnati Lancet & Observer by John A. Murphy, E. B. Stevens, George Mendenhall (1863)
"If we consequently have to consider an opening in the wall of the vessel as a first condition for the intravasation of pus corpuscles, ..."

2. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"In one case only may entire pus reach the circulation, that is a vein is in open connection with a focus of suppuration, in which a genuine intravasation ..."

3. Hereditary Descent: Its Laws and Facts Applied to Human Improvement by Orson Squire Fowler (1852)
"We much oftener discover in the brain, after death from madness, inflammation, effusions of water in its ventricles, extravasation and intravasation of ..."

4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1866)
"... the lymphatics—by intravasation of a pus-globule, for instance, within a lymphatic tube,—and may produce an abscess at the nearest gland, ..."

5. Cellular pathology: As Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology by Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Frank Chance (1860)
"intravasation of pus. Pas in the lymphatic vessels.—Retention of matters in the lymphatic glands —Mechanical separation (filtration). ..."

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