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Venous  adj.  
1.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.
2.
Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; said of the blood, and opposed to arterial.
3.
Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf.
Venous leaf (Bot.), a leaf having vessels branching, or variously divided, over its surface.
Venous hum (Med.), a humming sound, or bruit, heard during auscultation of the veins of the neck in anaemia.
Venous pulse (Physiol.), the pulse, or rhythmic contraction, sometimes seen in a vein, as in the neck, when there is an obstruction to the passage of blood from the auricles to the ventricles, or when there is an abnormal rigidity in the walls of the greater vessels. There is normally no pulse in a vein.





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"Venous" Quotes from Famous Books



... the leaf these veins produce so many arteries, or aortas, which disperse the new blood over the new bark, elongating its vessels, or producing its secretions; but as a reservoir of blood could not be wanted by a vegetable bud which takes in its nutriment at all times, I imagine there is no venous system, no veins properly so called, which receive the blood which was to spare, and return it into the pulmonary or ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin
... that all compression of the skin by cravats, wristbands, waistbands, belts, garters, or any other form of ligatures, must be wrong! Must it not impede the motion of the venous blood in its return to the heart? Must not even light boots, garters, stockings, &c., do this? Is it not a task sufficiently difficult for the blood to climb from the feet to the heart, directly against the power of gravity, without being impeded, is ...
— The Young Woman's Guide • William A. Alcott


Words linked to "Venous" :   vein, venous blood vessel, venous pressure, venous thrombosis, venous blood


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