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- non- + vascular (Wiktionary)
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“Local variation in productivity is also associated with dramatic shifts in the relative abundance of plant functional types including both vascular and nonvascular plants (sections 7.3 and 7.4.1).”
“The dominant C input to arctic ecosystems is from photosynthesis in vascular and nonvascular plants, which in total comprises GEP.”
“Total nonvascular plant biomass and particularly the biomass of lichens decreased in response to 10 years or more of environmental manipulations at sites in subarctic Sweden and in Alaska.”
“A general long-term (10 years or more) response to environmental manipulations at sites in subarctic Sweden and in Alaska was a decrease in total nonvascular plant biomass and particularly the biomass of lichens [38] (Fig. 7.23).”
“First of all, if the patient is asymptomatic, has no known, CHF, CKD, or stroke, for a nonvascular surgery, I wouldn't not even recommend stressing the guy.”
“Much disagreement has also stemmed from new discoveries about the structure of bacteria and certain other microscopic creatures, which were once assumed to be structurally similar to nonvascular plants but which are now known to be considerably different in structure.”
ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb
“Such an effect could account for the marked relaxation of both vascular and nonvascular smooth muscle that accompanies the erectile response and allows for the engorgement of blood in the sinusoidal or trabecular network of blood vessels in the corpus cavernosum.”
“After all, nitric oxide released from such nerves would be expected to diffuse into the nearby vascular and nonvascular smooth muscle and cause relaxation.”
“While studying the relaxant effects of nitric oxide on vascular and nonvascular smooth muscle from corpus cavernosum erectile tissue, we realized that the naturally occurring physiological neurotransmitter involved in the erectile response in mammals was unknown.”
“No doubt many cases wherein fibrillary fracture of ligaments (sprain) takes place some lameness is caused, but because of the dense, comparatively nonvascular nature of these structures, little if any manifestation, except lameness, is evident.”
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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