hypervascular

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English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ vascular.

Adjective

hypervascular (not comparable)

  1. Extremely vascular; having many blood vessels.
    • 2015 July 24, “Possible Contrast Media Reduction with Low keV Monoenergetic Images in the Detection of Focal Liver Lesions: A Dual-Energy CT Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      The mean HU and standard deviation (SD) were measured in the liver, the hypervascular portion of the VX2 tumor which represented hypervascular tumors, and the central necrotic area of the VX2 tumor which represented hypovascular tumors in 140kVp images with I 300 as a reference standard and in monoenergetic images (between 40keV and 140keV) with I 150 and I 75 .

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