hypovascularization

noun

deficient vascularization

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Meanings

nounhypovascularization (usually uncountable, plural hypovascularizations)

plural hypovascularizations

  1. uncountableusuallydeficient vascularization

    We can speculate that in conditions of hypovascularization, metabolically stressed PaSC would decrease the production of ECM proteins but they would retain their capacity to support angiogenic processes that alleviate hypoxia and poor substrate availability and fuel tumor progression.

    2016 February 6, “The Unfolded Protein Response Plays a Predominant Homeostatic Role in Response to Mitochondrial Stress in Pancreatic Stellate Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From hypo- + vascularization.

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APA

hypovascularization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypovascularization

MLA

“hypovascularization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypovascularization. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypovascularization,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypovascularization.

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