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Venous adj.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood.

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.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Venous" Quotes from Famous Books

... its arterial journey, bright red and rich, laden with life-giving qualities and properties. It returns by the venous route, poor, blue and dull, being laden down with the waste matter of the system. It goes out like a fresh stream from the mountains; it returns as a stream of sewer water. This foul stream goes to the right auricle of the heart. When this ...

— The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath • Yogi Ramacharaka

... every part of the body. Between the ultimate ramifications of the arteries and the beginning of the veins there is an intermediate system of very minute vessels called capillaries, which connect the arterial with the venous system of the circulation. The walls of the arteries are possessed of a certain amount of rigidity, sufficient to keep the tubes open when they ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... Collection at Windsor there are anatomical drawings for the construction of an imaginary quadruped with gigantic claws. The bony, muscular, and venous structure of its legs and feet is ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... inner coat of the liver, and forms sheaths for the blood-vessels and excretory ducts. The liver is abundantly supplied with arteries, veins, nerves, and lymphatics. Unlike the other glands of the human body, it receives two kinds of blood; the arterial for its nourishment, and the venous, from which it secretes the bile. In the lower surface of the liver is lodged the gall-bladder, a membranous sac, or reservoir, for the bile. This fluid is not absolutely necessary to the digestion of food, since this process ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... began to promote circulation by rubbing the legs upward, so as to drive the venous blood to the heart and thus try to start its action. Almost ten minutes elapsed before the doctor's patience was rewarded with the faint throb of a heart-beat, then another. It was soft and irregular at first, but gradually the blood began to move through the arteries and in a ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... medicinal tincture (H.) made from the fresh root collected at Christmas, just before the plant would flower, when [108] taken in small doses, will promptly relieve dropsy, especially a sudden dropsical swelling of the skin, with passive venous congestion of the ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

Words linked to "Venous" : venous blood, venous pressure, venous sinus, venous blood system