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VASA VASORUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vasa vasorum mean?
• VASA VASORUM (noun)
The noun VASA VASORUM has 1 sense:
1. any small blood vessel ramifying on the outside of a major artery or vein
Familiarity information: VASA VASORUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any small blood vessel ramifying on the outside of a major artery or vein
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("vasa vasorum" is a kind of...):
blood vessel (a vessel in which blood circulates)
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