vascularization

English

Alternative forms

• vascularisation

Etymology

From vascular +‎ -ization.

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Noun

vascularization (countable and uncountable, plural vascularizations)

1. the process of being vascularized.
2. (medicine) the formation of blood vessels and capillaries in living tissue
3. (botany) the formation of leaf veins

Derived terms

• avascularization
• devascularization
• extravascularization
• fibrovascularization
• hypervascularization
• hypovascularization
• microvascularization
• neovascularization
• overvascularization
• prevascularization

See also

• vasculature