[f. as next + -ATION.] Conversion to a vascular condition.
1818. Cooper & Travers, Surg. Ess., I. (ed. 3), 79. Several lumps of lymph effused in the anterior chamber, are undergoing vascularization.
1847–9. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 101/1. Ascertaining the fact of vascularization of scorbutic coagula.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 195. Likewise inflammation or disease of cartilage may be followed by vascularisation and ossification.
