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VENOUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or contained in or performing the function of the veins

Example:

venous circulation

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

vein (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Derivation:

vein (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The presence of bubbles of gas in the vascular system; occurrence is related to the entry of air into the venous circulation following trauma or surgery.

(Air Embolism, NCI Thesaurus)

Unlike other blood vessels, dural venous sinuses lack valves and other vessel associated layers.

(Dural Venous Sinus, NCI Thesaurus)

The blood vessels at the vertex and on either side of the head that drain deoxygenated blood into the pterygoid venous plexus.

(Deep Temporal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

The right pumps venous blood into the lungs and the left pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.

(Cardiac Ventricle, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Desglymidodrine selectively binds to and activates alpha-1-adrenergic receptors of the arteriolar and venous vasculature.

(Midodrine, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to smooth muscle cell relaxation causing arterial and venous dilatation.

(Nesiritide, NCI Thesaurus)

The venous trunk which receives blood from the lower extremities and from the pelvic and abdominal organs.

(Murine Inferior Vena Cava, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Furthermore, this agent causes arterial and venous bed dilation in a dose-dependent manner.

(Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign vascular lesion characterized by the presence of a complex network of communicating arterial and venous vascular structures.

(Arteriovenous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is divided by a musculomembranous septum into two halves — right or venous and left or arterial — each of which consists of a receiving chamber (atrium) and an ejecting chamber (ventricle).

(Heart, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)