Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The entrance into vessels of matters formed outside of them or in their parietes.

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  • noun medicine The entry of foreign (especially cancerous) material into a blood vessel

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  • noun entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[intra– + (extra)vasation.]

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Examples

  • While three distinct steps are affected by this cohort of miR-31 targets (namely local invasion, early post-intravasation events and metastatic colonization), of particular interest was the finding that two of the three effectors regulate metastatic colonization - the final and rate-limiting step of metastasis.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • While three distinct steps are affected by this cohort of miR-31 targets (namely local invasion, early post-intravasation events and metastatic colonization), of particular interest was the finding that two of the three effectors regulate metastatic colonization - the final and rate-limiting step of metastasis.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

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    Rational Review 2009

  • While three distinct steps are affected by this cohort of miR-31 targets (namely local invasion, early post-intravasation events and metastatic colonization), of particular interest was the finding that two of the three effectors regulate metastatic colonization - the final and rate-limiting step of metastasis.

    innovations-report 2009

  • "This study describes the presence of ill-defined areas of fluid intravasation extending from the uterine cavity into the myometrium known as fluid containing tracks or so called

    Emaxhealth 2009

  • "This study describes the presence of ill-defined areas of fluid intravasation extending from the uterine cavity into the myometrium known as fluid containing tracks or so called

    innovations-report 2009

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