Definition of vein

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Vein (n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2..

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Stem :: Stem (v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves..
Areolation :: Areolation (n.) Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an areola..
Phlebogram :: Phlebogram (n.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse..
Interlobular :: Interlobular (a.) Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein..
Rugose :: Rugose (a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound..
Vena :: Vena (n.) A vein.
Bar :: Bar (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
Artery :: Artery (n.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries..
Veined :: Veined (a.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf..
Elvan :: Elvan (a.) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen..
Brocatel :: Brocatel (n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality..
Labial :: Labial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins..
Filanders :: Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm..
Costa :: Costa (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib..
Shoad :: Shoad (n.) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines..
Venulose :: Venulose (a.) Full of venules, or small veins..
Veiny :: Veiny (a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble..
Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
Stowre :: Stowing (n.) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.
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