venous
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈviːnəs/
- Specialized
:
venoso
- If our heart doesn't get venous blood from the body, it won't have blood to give clean blood to the body.
- venous return
- venous pressure
- venous thrombosis
I also was born with an arterial venous malformation in your heart.
- I also was born with an arterial venous malformation in your heart.
- The other drives muscle contract cardiac output to match venous return.
- Swimming, there's no exercise but the but varicose veins, it's veins, your venous system.
Examples
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The effectiveness of the drug should be investigated in future studies of venous thrombosis.
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Total anomalous pulmonary venous return was diagnosed, necessitating immediate cardiac surgery.
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There's blood being removed from the body and from the venous side.
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They'll do a central venous pressure.
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The study began early in 1991, and venous blood was collected from 413 participants.
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Study staff collected blood samples by venous puncture in the morning after an overnight fast at each study visit.
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The second way to check that some doctors think you can check your blood pH is to check a venous blood sample and see what the pH of that is.
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His jugular venous pressure is raised, and bilateral pitting ankle edema is noted.
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Lowering the dosages of desogestrel and gestodene may reduce the possible excess of venous thromboembolic side effects.
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The nurse explained that the medication should be administered via a venous line for best absorption.
Synonyms
Having many veins in a body part that carry blood toward the heart
Showing many thin lines like those in leaves or marble
Compounds
- Specialized
A large channel in the body, often in the brain, that holds blood and has thin walls
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Venous comes from the Latin word vena, which means 'vein' and is the same root as the English word vein. Veins are the tubes that carry blood back to the heart, so venous means 'relating to the veins'.