vegetations in English

noun

1

plants considered collectively, especially those found in a particular area or habitat.

the chalk cliffs are mainly sheer with little vegetation

synonyms: plants, flora, greenery, foliage, herbage, verdure

2

the action or process of vegetating.

Two irrigation regimes were compared and plants were sampled at four stages of vegetation .

3

an abnormal growth on or in the body.

At autopsy, no eosinophils were found in either the endomyocardial specimens or the vegetation .

noun

• plants, flora, greenery, foliage, herbage, verdure
• botany, flora

Use "vegetations" in a sentence

1. Cardiac masses include tumours, thrombi, vegetations, calcific lesions and other rare conditions

2. 22 Irregular reddish tan vegetations overlie valve cusps that are being destroyed. Portions of the vegetation can break off and become septic emboli .

3. The Aztecs farming of the marshlands was fortunate in that water was readily available and the marshlands had abundant decaying vegetations that helped refertilize the farm plots

4. Definitive InfectiveEndocarditis Pathologic Criteria Micro-organisms demonstrated by culture or histology in avegetation OR in a vegetation that has embolized OR In an intracardiac Abscessor Pathologic Lesions Vegetations or intracardiac abscess presentconfirmed by histology showing activeendocarditis 30.

5. Rheumatic Carditis: panCarditis occurring in rheumatic fever, characterized by formation of Aschoff bodies in the cardiac interstitial tissue; may be associated with acute cardiac failure, endoCarditis with small fibrin vegetations on the margins of closure of valve cusps (especially the mitral), and fibrinous periCarditis; it …