vascular spider

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   a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate

   Synonymsspider angiomaspider nevus

   Broaderangioma

Questions about vascular spider

What does vascular spider mean?

vascular spider means "a dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate".

What is another word for vascular spider?

Close synonyms include spider angioma, spider nevus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vascular spider a common word?

vascular spider 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.