perivascular
adjective
perivascular is an adjective meaning “Around or surrounding a blood vessel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-R-I-V-A-S-C-U-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does perivascular mean?
adjective
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Around or surrounding a blood vessel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is perivascular?
Perivascular appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Perivascular in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense around or surrounding a blood vessel:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | périvasculaire |
| Spanish | perivascular |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does perivascular come from?
From peri- + vascular.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).