Usually means: Alternative blood flow around blockage.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateral circulation: Wordnik
  2. collateral circulation: Wiktionary
  3. collateral circulation: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. collateral circulation: Dictionary.com
  5. Collateral circulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. collateral circulation: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Collateral circulation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateral circulation: Legal dictionary
  2. collateral circulation: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collateral circulation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. collateral circulation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Collateral circulation: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. collateral circulation: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (collateral circulation)

noun:  (anatomy) The circulation of blood through a network of vessels that is developed through enlargement of secondary vessels and use of existing anastomoses between adjacent vessels when a major vein or artery is functionally impaired, as by obstruction.

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