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vasoocclusion

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Etymology

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From vaso- +‎ occlusion.

Noun

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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).
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