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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..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Marked with veins; veined; as, a venous leaf..

Veinal :: Veinal (a.) Pertaining to veins; venous.

Venose :: Venose (a.) Having numerous or conspicuous veins; veiny; as, a venose frond..

Prester :: Prester (n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..

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..

Facial :: Facial (a.) Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve..

Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein..

Sanguiferous :: Sanguiferous (a.) Conveying blood; as, sanguiferous vessels, i. e., the arteries, veins, capillaries..

Vein :: Vein (n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.

Ranine :: Ranine (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein..

Urry :: Urry (n.) A sort of blue or black clay lying near a vein of coal.

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..

Retinerved :: Retinerved (a.) Having reticulated veins.

Slicking :: Slicking (n.) Narrow veins of ore.

Rosetta Wood :: Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork..

Neuroptera :: Neuroptera (n. pl.) An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for chewing. They feed upon other insects, and undergo a complete metamorphosis. The ant-lion, hellgamite, and lacewing fly are examples. Formerly, the name was given to a much more extensive group, including the true Neuroptera and the Pseudoneuroptera..

Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

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