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Where does “extravascular” come from?

Extravascular comes from Latin extra meaning "outside" combined with vascular, which derives from Latin vas meaning "vessel" through the suffix -aris.

extravascular (English): Situated or happening outside of the blood...

Definitions

  1. Situated or happening outside of the blood...

Ancestry of “extravascular”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvascularRelating to the flow of fluids, such as blood,...
2New Latinvascularisvascular
3Latinvāsculum—
4Latin-culumnominative neuter singular of -culus; accusative...
5Proto-Italic-klom—
6Proto-Indo-European-tlomAlternative form of *-trom
7Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
8Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

Words derived from “extravascular”

  • extravascularly
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