Meanings
comparative more vasoocclusive · superlative most vasoocclusive · alternative vaso-occlusive · alternative vasocclusive
- medicineThat which leads to vasoocclusion.
Logic suggests that agents that sustain flow and prevent the initiation of vasoocclusion would be more successful than agents given after an acute vasoocclusive event has started, nevertheless animal studies have shown that this latter approach might be useful [ 110 ].
2015 July 29, Duyen A. Ngo, Martin H. Steinberg, “Genomic approaches to identifying targets for treating β hemoglobinopathies”, in BMC Medical Genomics, volume 8, →DOI
Origin
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