cerebrovascular
cerebrovascular
Definition
cer·ebro·vas·cu·lar (-vas′kyo̵̅o̅ lər)
adjective
of or pertaining to the blood vessels of the brain
cerebrovascular
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- accident: The medical name for stroke is cerebrovascular accident - or CVA for short.
- disease: Table 6.9 shows the trends in death rates from cerebrovascular disease over the period 1950 to 1996.
- event: We have shown that rates of acute cerebrovascular events in our population are, in fact, higher than those of acute coronary events.
- incident: Stroke - A cerebrovascular incident resulting in permanent neurological damage.
- dysfunction: Cerebrovascular dysfunction induced by drugs of abuse and the effects of aging.
- effect: The following questions were asked of this chapter: " Why were we looking at cardiac and not cerebrovascular effects?
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