VAS'CULAR, adjective [Latin vasculum, a vessel, from vas, id.] 1. Pertaining to the vessels of animal or vegetable bodies; as the vascular functions. 2. Full of vessels; consisting of animal or vegetable vessels, as arteries, veins, lacteals and the like; as the vascular system. Animal flesh is all vascular none of it parenchymous.
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