Extravascular

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Located or occurring outside a blood or lymph vessel.
  • adj. Lacking vessels; nonvascular.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues.
  • adj. Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being out of the proper vessel or vessels; without distinct vessels: applied especially to the free circulation of the blood of insects between the viscera and the muscles, without special veins or arteries.
  • Nonvascular: applied to parts which have no blood-vessels: as, cuticle and cartilage are extravascular structures.
  • Word Usage
    "I believe the intrinsic coagulation system initiated by the contact system would be more important as a host defense system working extravascular tissue space against microbial pathogens than as the haemostatic mechanism."
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