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Definition of vascular adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

vascular

adjective
 
/ˈvæskjələ(r)/
 
/ˈvæskjələr/
[usually before noun] (specialist)
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  1. of or containing veins (= the tubes that carry liquids around the bodies of animals and plants)
    • the vascular system
    • vascular disease
    Word Originlate 17th cent.: from modern Latin vascularis, from Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas ‘vessel’.
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