What's the difference between phlebology and vein?
Phlebology
Definition:
(n.) A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) Generally, this quantification completes the usual schemas, makes the teaching of sclerotherapy much easier, makes phlebology more accessible for computer data, with cartography as a basis for the anatomical reference points.
(2) The difficulties inherent in clinical experimentation in phlebology, stem from the fact that they concern highly subjective functional problems, and are thus difficult to measure.
(3) Phlebology has made considerable efforts to free itself from empiricism in recent years.
(4) Bandage treatment in the phlebologic sector may be very successful, yet is seems to be practiced still in too few cases.
(5) A phlebologic and phlebographic exam make it possible to diagnose an aneurysmal dilatation of the popliteal vein as the cause of the thrombo-embolic problems.
(6) The first phase, which belongs to the prehistory of Phlebology, includes two notable facts: the start of ambulatory compression in London around 1800, and the interest that the French school immediately showed in this discovery.
(7) The author has revealed a classification based on systematization of most frequently observed pathology, that allows a laconic functional and topical diagnosis and provides phlebological patients with individualized treatment.
(8) Phlebological status had to be included into prenatal care.
(9) Basing his study on his experience of the Doppler and of echotomography in everyday phlebological practice, the author examines the sclerosant treatment of symptomatic short saphenous veins, by measuring the reflux and morphology of this saphenofemoral junction.
(10) Noninvasive diagnosis of chronic diseases of the lower limb venous system is an urgent problem of modern phlebology.
(11) After childbirth, a phlebological assessment is carried out to evaluate the sequelae and the therapeutic possibilities.
(12) The management of leg ulcers offers further possibilities of surgical approach in a phlebologic ambulatory.
(13) These steps can be used in phlebology in disorders due to stasis affecting the lower limbs, in orthopedics in functional rehabilitation as preventive treatment in the case of sedentary activities.
(14) The public hair hides all traces of the scar in this region, significant for aesthetics in phlebology.
(15) The use of duplex in phlebology, however, should not be limited to these indications.
(16) 3 areas in which gynecological factors affect phlebology and especially the venous system of the lower extremities are discussed.
(17) Compared to the conventional noninvasive techniques in phlebology such as plethysmography and CW-Doppler its major advantage is the additional morphologic information.
(18) Despite its intermittent nature, positional obstruction must be kept under consideration: in hospital medicine, because of the potential danger of venous stasis which it causes, with the risk of underlying thrombosis; in everyday phlebology, since it explains, to a certain extent, the mechanisms of chronic venous insufficiency occurring after standing upright or sitting for prolonged periods.
(19) However, it should also be noted that "capillary phobias" are met with, and these are nothing more than neuroses due to lack of adaptation to present-day life and are certainly not curable by phlebology therapy.
(20) According to D. Reinharez, pain and edema are the commonest presenting symptoms in phlebology.
Vein
Definition:
(n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.
(n.) One of the similar branches of the framework of a leaf.
(n.) One of the ribs or nervures of the wings of insects. See Venation.
(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.
(n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
(n.) A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.
(n.) A train of association, thoughts, emotions, or the like; a current; a course.
(n.) Peculiar temper or temperament; tendency or turn of mind; a particular disposition or cast of genius; humor; strain; quality; also, manner of speech or action; as, a rich vein of humor; a satirical vein.
(v. t.) To form or mark with veins; to fill or cover with veins.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(3) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(4) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(7) An intravenous bolus of 300 micrograms.kg-1 of 3-desacetylvecuronium was rapidly injected into the jugular vein.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) Rapid injection of 2 m Ci TC 99m into a dorsal vein of the foot produced isotope phlebograms with a Dyna camera 2 C.
(10) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(11) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(12) The most frequent source of the pulmonary circulation thromboembolism was the lower limb veins.
(13) A patient with a history of hypertension had a combined central retinal artery and vein occlusion in one eye.
(14) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(15) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(16) A fiberoptic flow-directed catheter inserted into the hepatic vein continuously measures hepatic venous oxygen hemoglobin saturation (ShvO2).
(17) The angiographic demonstration of veins was similarly improved by the 2 drugs, the effect of 60 mug.
(18) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(19) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(20) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.