Example Sentences

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In the minutes before taking the stage, Caminiti eats Raisinets—a sugar rush adds definition and opens the veins for increased vascularity.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018

Beneath the skin, a beak has high vascularity and is uninsulated; if the bird's blood is hotter than the surrounding air, the heat will flow from the beak into the surrounding air.

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2012

Where light air is circulated instead of heavy blood, great vascularity serves only to make existence more ethereal.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by Chambers, William

Firstly, the greater vascularity of the membrane covering its front leads to a greater outpouring of inflammatory fluid in that particular position.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

It is an undoubted fact that, in this disease, all the glands concerned in the secretion of saliva, become increased in bulk and vascularity.

From The Dog by Youatt, William