- the blood vessels: vasogenic
- the vas deferens: vasotomy
- vasomotor: vasoinhibitor
Also, usually before a vowel, vas-
Origin of vaso-
from Classical Latin vas, vessel
prefix
Vaso is defined as related to blood vessels.
An example of vaso used as a prefix is in the word vasomotor, which means relating to controlling the size of blood vessels.
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vaso-
or vas-
prefix
- Blood vessel: vasoconstriction.
- Vas deferens: vasectomy.
Origin of vaso-
From Latin vās vesselTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Sentence Examples
- And xii.; Savignoni, Il Vaso di Haghia Triada).
- Paldo, Tuto and Vaso (according to Mabillon); Assumption of the Virgin; Combat between the Virtues and the Vices.
- As the vaso-motor centre in the medulla oblongata is also stimulated, as well as the contractions of the heart, there is thus trebly caused a very great rise in the blood-pressure.
- The muscular wall of the blood-vessels also exhibits tonic contraction, which, however, seems to be mainly traceable to a continual excitation of the muscle cells by nervous influence conveyed to them along their nerves, and originating in the great vaso motor centre in the bulb.
- The action upon the vaso-motor system is, however, fairly clear.
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