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LYMPHATIC VESSEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lymphatic vessel mean? 

LYMPHATIC VESSEL (noun)
  The noun LYMPHATIC VESSEL has 1 sense:

1. a vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulationplay

  Familiarity information: LYMPHATIC VESSEL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LYMPHATIC VESSEL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A vascular duct that carries lymph which is eventually added to the venous blood circulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

lymph vessel; lymphatic vessel

Hypernyms ("lymphatic vessel" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lymphatic vessel"):

thoracic duct (the major duct of the lymphatic system)

lacteal (any of the lymphatic vessels that convey chyle from the small intestine to the thoracic duct)

Holonyms ("lymphatic vessel" is a part of...):

lymphatic system; systema lymphaticum (the interconnected system of spaces and vessels between body tissues and organs by which lymph circulates throughout the body)


 Context examples 


This is how metastasis occurs – spreading via the blood vessels and lymphatic vessels.

(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The brain, part of the central nervous system, has blood vessels but has been thought to lack lymphatic vessels, as they’ve never been found.

(Lymphatic Vessels Discovered in Central Nervous System, NIH)

One of the nodes that lie along the course of a lymphatic vessel between a primary melanoma site and a recognized node field.

(Interval Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

Nodes that lie along the course of a lymphatic vessel between a primary melanoma site and a recognized node field.

(Murine Interval Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital abnormality in the lungs characterized by the presence of dilated lymphatic vessels in the interlobar, perivascular, and peribronchial areas of the lungs.

(Congenital Pulmonary Lymphangiectasia, NCI Thesaurus)

It results from the disruption of the lymphatic vessels in the abdominal cavity.

(Chylous Ascites, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign lymphatic neoplasm usually arising from the neck and characterized by cystic dilation of the lymphatic vessels.

(Cystic Hygroma, NCI Thesaurus)

It tends to invade deeply into the myometrium and spreads into the lymphatic vessels.

(Endometrial Serous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Meshwork of embryonic connective tissue in the mesoderm from which are formed the connective tissues of the body and the blood and lymphatic vessels.

(Mesenchyme, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

This gene plays an essential role in the development of embryonic cardiovasculature and lymphatic vessel formation.

(FLT4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)



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