Definition of "intimal" [intimal]

• Of or pertaining to an intima (adjective)

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• "I think a multi-center study of this magnitude should never had attempted such a refined and difficult measurement as determining regression of intimal thickness."
• "From a mechanistic point of view, it seems that the addition of drugs to the stents worked to prevent the over-exuberant growth of intimal cells onto the stents causing early restenosis in the six month time frame but also may have overdone it in some patients leading to inadequate neointimal coverage of the DES and late thrombosis of the stent."
• "But then we saw the bullet . . . had passed through . . . there was an intimal tear."