avascular
Adjective
Meaning
without blood vessels
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Phrases with the word
Examples
A few structures (such as cartilage and the lens of the eye) do not contain blood vessels and are labeled avascular.
A later terrestrial adaptation took place with retention of the delicate, avascular sexual stage, the gametophyte, within the tissues of the vascular sporophyte.
Due to this the lack of connective tissue surrounding the parabronchi and adjacent parabronchial lumen, they exchange blood capillaries or avascular epithelial plates.