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

Vertebrarterial :: Vertebrarterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.

Circumflex :: Circumflex (a.) Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts..

Venule :: Venule (n.) A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects..

Endogen :: Endogen (n.) A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts, and their embryos have but a single cotyledon, with the first leaves alternate. The endogens constitute one of the grea

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

Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..

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..

Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc..

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

Pertusion :: Pertusion (n.) The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein..

Mauveine :: Mauveine (n.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms..

Radiate-veined :: Radiate-veined (a.) Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation..

Powerful :: Powerful (a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

Feather-veined :: Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

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