Definition of vein

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Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

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Fret :: Fret (n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins..
Nerved :: Nerved (a.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins..
Hemadynamometer :: Hemadynamometer (n.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer..
Veined :: Veined (a.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf..
Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Phlebotomize :: Phlebotomize (v. t.) To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Orifice :: Orifice (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound..
Blood Vessel :: Blood vessel () Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein..
Argentiferous :: Argentiferous (a.) Producing or containing silver; as, argentiferous lead ore or veins..
Vena :: Vena (n.) A vein.
Inosculation :: Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc..
Veinless :: Veinless (a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf..
Avenious :: Avenious (a.) Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein..
Capillary :: Capillary (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels..
Vaginervose :: Vaginervose (a.) Having the nerves, or veins, placed in apparent disorder..
Sole :: Sole (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Suprahyoid :: Suprahepatic (a.) Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins..
Phlebogram :: Phlebogram (n.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse..
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