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Anastomose :: Anastomose (v. i.) To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins..

Fault :: Fault (n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Phlebotomize :: Phlebotomize (v. t.) To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.

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

Interveined :: Interveined (a.) Intersected, as with veins..

Blood Vessel :: Blood vessel () Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein..

Phlebotomy :: Phlebotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting..

Flat :: Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal..

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..

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

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

Rake-vein :: Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein..

Cloudy :: Cloudy (n.) Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation..

Sole :: Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..

Lance :: Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess..

Navus :: Navus (n.) A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries..

Roof :: Roof (n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

Stockwork :: Stockwork (n.) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories..

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