(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.
Veinous
Definition:
(a.) Marked with veins; veined; veiny.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chemical composition of the grafted veins was different from that of the nongrafted, controlateral saphenous veins suggesting a molecular remodeling of the grafted veinous wall.
(2) Phagocytic activity of the reticuloendothelial system (RES) and blood cholinesterase activity were determined in male rats after veinous administrations of carbaryl and 1-naphthol, a carbaryl metabolite.
(3) The need for careful histological examination for lymphatic and veinous invasion is stressed by the presence of this finding in all four high risk patients with involved lymph nodes.
(4) Human umbilical veinous endothelial cells are cultured on artificial substrates precoated with extracellular matrix from bovine corneal endothelial cells.
(5) The leg had rapidly increased in volume and was apparently the site of a deep veinous thrombosis.
(6) About 4 cases of arterio-veinous malformations located within the occipito-cerebello-mesencephalic dihedral (which is this region of the brain including the cistern of Galen and the surrounding formations : the quadrigeminal bodies forwards, the splenium of the corpus callosum upwards, the upper face of the cerebellum and the pedonculus cerebellaris superior below) the authors related their own experience.
(7) In piglets, intraveinous infusion of somatostatin also did not change the jugular veinous plasma calcitonin concentration.
(8) In both cases the phlebography of the orbit shows an alteration of the orbital veinous blood flow, specially of the third segment of the superior orbital vein.
(9) The dorsal vein of penis in the male rat run into a retro-pubic veinous circle.
(10) In young calves receiving intraveinously a small dose of calcium to stimulate calcitonin release, intraveinous infusion of somatostatin did not significantly modify the jugular veinous plasma calcitonin levels measured by radioimmunoassay, using a porcine system which cross-reacts with bovine calcitonin.
(11) The slightest hydraulic imbalance due to the stasis, sets of a whole series of chain reactions that can rapidly become harmful, with chronic veinous deficiency setting in.
(12) Neosynthesis of elastin was considered as valid criteria for the adaptation of the veinous wall to the new (arterial circulatory) conditions.
(13) The use of adaptive linear neuron is referred to in recognizing veinous thromboses and lung embolism in a total of 88 acute palsies.
(14) This veinous malformation usually presents with pulmonary embolism due to migration of blood clot from the thrombosed aneurysmal sack.
(15) This study is based on the development of the surgical treatment of Klippel-Trenaunay's syndrome by means of an original technique which consists in the separation of the arterial system from the deep veinous system which we call: "Regional segmental skeletization".
(16) Hepatic echo-angiostructure: echo-anatomical study of the intraparenchymatous canal With a suitable technique (real time, grey scale) hepatic ultrasonography is able to display intraglandular ductal elements: portal veinous network, supra-hepatic veinous network, and, if enlarged intrahepatic biliary tree.
(17) It is therefore proved that the dog orthotopic hepatic transplantation may be done only be decompressing the veinous splanchnic system which is a technical simplification, avoiding particularly the temporary porto-cava anastomosis or the settlement of a second femoro-jugular shunt.
(18) Rupture occurs because the distended utero-placental arterial wall bursts under the insult of raised pressure during the uterine contraction; --intense; these anomalies come from total blockage, both veinous and arterial, and the arterial rupture is due to anoxaemic necrosis of the utero-placental arterial wall.
(19) Two of the common veinous-catheter systems are compared as for practicability.
(20) From the retro-pubic veinous circle, there is a triangular circulation between the internal pudendal vein, the anastomotic vein and the iliac vein.