extravascular
- adjective
- /ˌɛkstrəˈvæskjələr/
- Specialized
- The extravascular space is crucial for nutrient exchange between tissues and blood.
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Glucose and insulin levels have to be lower in the extravascular space because that is where they are consumed.
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Extravascular migration may occur along tissue planes assisted by muscle motion.
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A transmembrane protein of 47 kDa that is normally expressed by extravascular cells only.
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Of one corpse, the authors observed, "After the opening of the body, there was found in the cavitate pectoris a quantity of fresh extravascular blood."
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The concentrations that matter are the concentrations adjacent to each cell in the extravascular space, not the concentrations in bulk blood (which is the only place it can be measured).
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Hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension (to increase extravascular volumetric flow) are logical compensatory responses that are adaptive in the short term, but maladaptive when carried out for too long.
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They found that the extravascular fluid levels influence inflammation in various diseases.
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Research shows that drugs are often more effective when administered to the extravascular area.
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Etymology
Extravascular comes from the parts extra- meaning 'outside' and vascular related to vessel, a word for a 'tube' that carries blood. So extravascular means 'located outside the blood vessels'.