vasoocclusion

English

Alternative forms

• vaso-occlusion

Etymology

vaso- +‎ occlusion

Noun

vasoocclusion (plural vasoocclusions)

1. vascular occlusion
   • 2015 July 29, Duyen A. Ngo, Martin H. Steinberg, “Genomic approaches to identifying targets for treating β hemoglobinopathies”, in BMC Medical Genomics‎^[1], volume 8, →DOI:

     Other early phase trials are based on improving the inflammation that is a result of sickle vasoocclusion and vasculopathy by reducing the activation of invariant natural killer T-cells (NCT01788631) and using a statin as an anti-inflammatory (NCT01702246).

Related terms

• vasoocclusive