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n. - The organic process whereby body tissue develops vessels that conduct and circulate fluids and develops capillaries.

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  • The primary requirement for a body appendage or evagination to be identified as a gill or ctenidium is the high vascularization of the respiratory surface.
  • There may be useful growth response information in such parameters as cell-wall thickness, cell volume, cambium vascularization, or lignin/cellulose ratios, etc.
  • As the body volume increases, however, the relative surface area decreases and specialized organs that concentrate blood vessels vascularization in pockets of increased...
  • As the body volume increases, however, the relative surface area decreases and specialized organs that concentrate blood vessels (vascularization) in pockets of...
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