vaskulare

Vaskulare is a term derived from the Latin vasculare, meaning "of vessels," and is used in several languages as an adjective to denote relation to vessels, most often blood vessels. In English-language medical and biological writing, the direct translation is vascular. The word appears in contexts describing structures, tissues, and processes that involve vessels, including the network that carries blood in animals and the vascular tissues in plants.

In human medicine, vaskulare terms are common in discussions of anatomy and pathology that involve the vascular system, which comprises arteries, veins, and capillaries. The study of this system includes topics such as vascular anatomy, vascular physiology, and vascular diseases. Procedures and specialties that focus on vessels—such as vascular surgery and interventional radiology—address conditions like blockages, malformations, or injuries of blood vessels.

In botany, the concept extends to vascular plants, which possess specialized conducting tissues called xylem and phloem for the transport of water, minerals, and sugars. This distinguishes them from non-vascular plants, such as mosses and liverworts, which lack these tissues and have limited transport systems.

Variants and cognates of the term appear in different languages, often with orthography that reflects local phonology (for example, vascular in English, vaskulær in some Germanic languages). In English, terms such as vasculature and vascularization are closely related and frequently used in similar contexts.

Overall, vaskulare functions as a cross-disciplinary descriptor spanning medicine, physiology, and botany to denote something connected with vessels.