vary colored (varikulord)

An erroneous spelling of varicolored. vas (vas), n.; pl. vasa (vāʼsä). [ circulatory: as, the vascular system; a vascular function or action. Some vascular systems are specified as blood - vascular, lymph - vascular, and water - vascu lar. See also chylaqueous. Remotely dependent, however, as the genesis of motion is on digestive, vascular , respiratory, and other structures, and immediately dependent as it is on contractile structures, its most important dependence remains to be named: the initiator or primary generator of motion is the Nervous System. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 2. The machinery of circulation is two sets of ve els the hæmatic, or vascular system proper, consisting of the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries for the blood-circulation; and the lymphatic, consisting of lymph-hearts and ve els, for the flow of lymph. Those ti ues whose capillaries are large enough for the pa age of all the constituents of the blood are said to be vascular ; those which only feed by sucking up certain constituents of the blood, and have no demonstrable capillaries, are called non-vascular. Coues , Key to N. A. Birds, p. 195. (b) Containing ve els for the circulation of fluids; especially, well provided with small blood ve els: as, muscle and bone are very vascular ti ues; cartilage and cuticle are non- vascular; a vascular tumor.-2. In bot.: ( a ) Consisting of, relating to, or furnished with ve els or ducts: applied to the ti ues of plants that are com posed of or furnished with elongated cells or taining to the higher or phanerogamous plants, these uniformly containing more or le clearly defined ve els or ducts. - Vascular arches, See visceral arches, under visceral. - Vascular cake, the placenta. [Rare.] - Vascular centers, the centers in the medulla and spinal cord which are supposed to control dilatation and contraction of the blood-ve els. - Vascular cryptogams, cryptogams in which the ti ues consist more or le of true vascular ti ue. These are coextensive with the Pteridophyta, or so-called higher cryptogams. - Vascular ganglions or glands. gland. - Vascular glomerulus. See glomerulus. Vascular plants, plants in which the structure is made for the circulation of sap. Of or per See The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary vascular up in part of vascular ti ue or ve els. They compose the Spermophyta, or ordinary flowering plants, and the Pteridophyta, or vascular cryptogams (see above): sometimes technically called Vascula res (which see). - Vascular stimulant, a remedy which accelerates the flow of blood through the ve els. - Vascular system. See def. 1 and system. Vascular ti ue. (a) Any ti ue permeated with blood-ve els, or other ve els large enough to convey blood-disks or lymph-corpuscles. (b) See vasalium, (c) In bot., ti ue composed of ve els or ducts; the fibrovascular system. Vascular tonic, a remedy which causes contraction of the finer blood-ve els. -Vascular tumor. (a) An aneurism. (b) A tumor composed chiefly of an agglomeration of dilated terminal blood-ve els. (c) A tumor which contains an abnormally large number of blood-ve els, bleeding profusely on the slightest injury. (dt) Bleeding internal hemorrhoids. - Water-vascular system. See water - vascular. Vascula res (vas-kū-lā'rēz), n. pl. [NL., pl. of L. vascular is, vascular: see vascular.] In De Candolle's system of cla ification (1818), a name given to that division of the vegetable kingdom more usually called Phanerogam i a or Phænogamia, including also the Pteridophyta, or ferns and their allies, and so named from the presence of vascular ti ue, which is wanting in all lower cryptogams. Compare Cellulares. vascularity (vas-kū-lar'i-ti), n. [ 6704 pronunciation. In the 18th century the sound ä in foreign words, except before r, was almost always rendered â by English speakers (cf. spa, often written spaw, pron. spa, G. ja, written yaw (ya), etc.).] 1. A hollow ve el, generally high in proportion to its horizontal diameter, and decorative in character and purpose. The term is sometimes restricted to such ve els when made without covers and without handles, or with two equal