[f. VASCULAR a. + -ITY.] Vascular form or condition.
1790. Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 209. The great vascularity of a muscle is … for the purpose of repairing the waste in the muscular fibres, occasioned by their action.
1818–20. E. Thompson, Cullen’s Nosologia, 321. The great vascularity and irritability of the skin at that period of life.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. III. iv. 146. The quantity of blood a leech is capable of drawing varies … according to the vascularity of the part.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 690. In the cords some evidences of increased vascularity were visible in the grey matter.
