| atorvastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Lipitor) that is effective in lowering triglycerides; potent in reducing LDL cholesterol because higher doses can be given | Synonyms: Lipitor |
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| avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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| canvas | (noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric | Synonyms: canvass |
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| (noun) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete | Synonyms: canvass |
| (noun) a tent made of canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas tent, canvass |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvass, sail, sheet |
| (noun) an oil painting on canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvass |
| (noun) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account | Synonyms: canvass |
| (verb) cover with canvas | - |
| canvasback | (noun) North American wild duck valued for sport and food | Synonyms: Aythya valisineria, canvasback duck |
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| canvass | (noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
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| (noun) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete | Synonyms: canvas |
| (noun) a tent made of canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas, canvas tent |
| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, sail, sheet |
| (noun) an oil painting on canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
| (noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: opinion poll, poll, public opinion poll |
| (noun) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account | Synonyms: canvas |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
| (verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
| canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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| (noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
| (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
| (noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
| canvassing | (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, electioneering |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| cerivastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Baycol) to reduce blood cholesterol levels | Synonyms: Baycol |
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| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
| (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
| (noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
| (noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
| evasion | (noun) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver | - |
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| (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, escape |
| (noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: nonpayment |
| (noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: equivocation |
| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| extravasate | (verb) cause molten material, such as lava, to pour forth | - |
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| (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, erupt |
| (verb) force out or cause to escape from a proper vessel or channel | - |
| extravasation | (noun) the process of exuding or passing out of a vessel into surrounding tissues; said of blood or lymph or urine | - |
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| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, eruption |
| (noun) an extravasated liquid (blood or lymph or urine); the product of extravasation | - |
| fluvastatin | (noun) least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol); usually taken orally at bedtime | Synonyms: Lescol |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| invasion | (noun) the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder | - |
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| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion |
| (noun) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body | - |
| invasive | (adjective) marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision | - |
| (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing |
| (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invading |
| invasiveness | (noun) The quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument). | - |
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| (noun) The quality of tending to spread; especially of tending to invade healthy tissue. | - |
| kuvasz | (noun) long-established Hungarian breed of tall light-footed but sturdy white dog; used also as a hunting dog | - |
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| kvass | (noun) fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley | - |
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| lovastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate | Synonyms: Mevacor |
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| malvasia | (noun) grape used to make malmsey wine | - |
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| noninvasive | (adjective) relating to a technique that does not involve puncturing the skin or entering a body cavity | - |
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| noninvasiveness | (noun) The quality of not being or involving an invasive medical procedure. | - |
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| pervasion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, suffusion |
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| pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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| pervasively | (adverb) in a pervasive manner | - |
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| pervasiveness | (noun) the quality of filling or spreading throughout | - |
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| pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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| vas | (noun) a tube in which a body fluid circulates | Synonyms: vessel |
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| vascular | (adjective) of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids | - |
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| vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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| vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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| vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |
| vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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| vase | (noun) an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers | - |
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| vasectomise | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomize |
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| vasectomize | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomise |
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| vasectomy | (noun) surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible | - |
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| vasiform | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular |
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| vasoconstriction | (noun) decrease in the diameter of blood vessels | - |
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| vasoconstrictive | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictor |
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| vasoconstrictor | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictive |
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| vasodilation | (noun) dilation of blood vessels (especially the arteries) | - |
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| vasodilative | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilator |
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| vasodilator | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilative |
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| vasomotor | (adjective) relating to the nerves and muscles that cause the blood vessels to constrict or dilate | - |
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| vasopressin | (noun) hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules | Synonyms: ADH, antidiuretic hormone, Pitressin |
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| vasopressor | (noun) any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure) | - |
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| vasosection | (noun) surgical incision into or division of the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasotomy |
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| vasotomy | (noun) surgical incision into or division of the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasosection |
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| vasovasostomy | (noun) a surgical procedure that attempts to restore the function of the vas deferens after a vasectomy | - |
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| vasovesiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis | - |
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| vassal | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege, liege subject, liegeman |
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| vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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| vast | (adjective) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope | Synonyms: Brobdingnagian, huge, immense |
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| vastly | (adverb) to an exceedingly great extent or degree | Synonyms: immensely |
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| vastness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, wideness |
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