venous
IPA: vˈinʌs
adjective
- (relational) Of or pertaining to veins.
- (relational, of blood) Having passed through the capillaries and given up oxygen for the tissues and become charged with carbon dioxide.
- Possessing veins.
- Having numerous veins.
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Examples of "venous" in Sentences
- Most of it goes back into the venous blood in the venules.
- Venous return is the rate of blood flow back to the heart.
- It provides venous drainage for the contents of the skull.
- The heat in the arterial blood transfers to the venous blood.
- Portal venous pressure is the blood pressure in the portal vein.
- The flow within the draining vein or venous sinus is anterograde.
- The venous blood picks up oxygen for distribution throughout the body.
- The heart acts to pump blood through arteries and uptake the venous blood.
- Lower was the first to observe the difference in arterial and venous blood.
- Venous pressure is the vascular pressure in a vein or in the atria of the heart.
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