What's the difference between nonvascular and vascular?
Nonvascular
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
Example Sentences:
(1) The growth in the revascularized bone grafts has been compared to that in heterotopic, nonvascularized ulna transfers and to normal ulnar growth.
(2) In numerous points of these plexuses, single adrenergic fibers or polyaxonal structures are observed to issue into nonvascular areas of the mesentery where after repeated dichotomic division they pass into the preterminal and terminal parts.
(3) The pharmacological actions of the peptide suggest a role in the control of nonvascular smooth muscle tone.
(4) Ang II binding parameters were determined utilizing 125I-Ang II in vascular (glomeruli and mesenteric arteries) and nonvascular (adrenal glomerulosa) tissues from 24- to 28-day pregnant rabbits.
(5) In cases of nonisolated single arterial injuries (69), there were 46% and 36% nonvascular complications in the repaired and ligated groups, respectively.
(6) Adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) is believed to be an important mediator of myometrial relaxation, and there is evidence to suggest that guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) is a mediator of smooth muscle relaxation in vascular and probably nonvascular tissues.
(7) To our knowledge, this is the first published report of an out-hospital survival after heart-lung transplantation for terminal nonvascular lung disease.
(8) Tibial dyschondroplasia (TD) is an abnormality of the growth plate of growing chicks characterized by the presence of a mass of nonvascularized, nonmineralized cartilage.
(9) In the remaining three patients, a secondary procedure, consisting of onlay nonvascularized bone autografting at one end of the vascularized transferred bone segment, was required to obtain union.
(10) The strength and stiffness of these grafts were approximately 40 per cent and 56 per cent more than nonvascularized grafts, respectively.
(11) Sham operated nonvascularized autotransplanted and allotransplanted bones were compared.
(12) 3H-thymidine incorporation occurred first in the nonvascular cells of the superficial medullary ray and thereafter in the preretinal vessels and extraretinal fibroblasts.
(13) Nonvascular complications included facial nerve paralysis in 10 patients (usually temporary), glossopharyngeal and vagal paralysis in 13 patients requiring Teflon injection of the vocal cord in 9, temporary difficulties with mastication in 9 patients, and wound infection in 3.
(14) Blood flow magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has played a significant role in the evaluation and differentiation of vascular from nonvascular lesions, particularly as it applies to the CNS.
(15) The other mesenchymal tumors of nonvascular origin showed negative staining for three endothelial markers.
(16) There were 153 volunteers in group 1, all more than 50 years of age, who were being treated at our outpatient department for nonvascular problems.
(17) Dogs in the nonvascularized group were unable to maintain normal calcium without supplements, whereas dogs in the vascularized group maintained levels in the normal range.
(18) Five cases of segmental vascularized nerve grafts that bridge scarred beds for digital sensory nerve reconstruction where previous nonvascularized nerve grafts have failed are reported.
(19) Topical retinoid application inhibited conjunctival transdifferentiation in nonvascularized corneas to the same extent as that caused by corneal vascularization, suggesting that vitamin A is an important blood-borne factor for goblet cell maintenance.
(20) Vascularized canine fibular autografts demonstrated improved biologic and mechanical characteristics 3 months after surgery when compared with nonvascularized controls.
Vascular
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
(a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(2) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(3) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(4) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(5) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(6) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(7) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(8) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(9) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(10) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(11) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(12) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(13) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(14) When nifedipine was combined with ouabain the elevation of vascular resistance was completely abolished.
(15) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(16) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
(17) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(18) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(19) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(20) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.