vasa vasorum

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   any small blood vessel ramifying on the outside of a major artery or vein

   Broaderblood vessel

Questions about vasa vasorum

What does vasa vasorum mean?

vasa vasorum means "any small blood vessel ramifying on the outside of a major artery or vein".

Is vasa vasorum a common word?

vasa vasorum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.