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What does avascular mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word avascular? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (medicine) Lacking blood vessels
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Defects of the hip's cartilage can be caused by osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, avascular necrosis, and trauma.
Treatment is directed to the avascular part of the retina with the goal of decreasing the production of angiogenic growth factors.
This way an avascular plane should be found, with the surface of the cyst appearing white again.
The disorder is known as osteo necrosis, or avascular necrosis, because the death of bone results from a lack of blood supply.
It is considered an overuse syndrome not involving avascular necrosis or an inflammatory process, and as such it develops over a period of time.
The areas with aggregates of cavernous-type blood vessels alternated with avascular zones.

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