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avascular
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avascular /avas·cu·lar/ (a-vas´ku-ler) not vascular; bloodless.
a·vas·cu·lar (-vsky-lr)
adj.
Not associated with or supplied by blood vessels.
a·vascu·lari·ty (-lr-t) n.
avascular
[āvas′kyələr]
Etymology: Gk, a, without; L, vasculum, vessel
1 pertaining to a tissue area that is not receiving a sufficient supply of blood. The reduced supply may be the result of blockage by a blood clot or of the deliberate stoppage of flow during surgery or during control of a hemorrhage.
2 pertaining to a kind of tissue that does not have blood vessels.
avascular [a-vas´ku-ler]
not vascular; bloodless.
avascular
not vascular; bloodless.
avascular necrosis of the femoral head
see legg-calvé-perthes disease.
avascular chorion
the normally avascular and villous tips of the chorioallantoic membranes in pig, sheep and cattle placentas; colored white to brown, wrinkled; called also the necrotic tips.
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2008); 2) physiological damage to the retinal cells resulting from multiple embolisms, low blood oxygen levels in the choroid rete, avascularity of the retina, and the need of a continuous supply of oxygen in the retinal cells (Fonner et al.
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3) This region of avascularity also corresponded to the location of superior and inferior retinacula, which serve as pulleys for the ATT mechanism.
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