Definitions for venous

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venous ve·nous

Spelling: [vee-nuh s]

IPA: /ˈvi nəs/

Venous is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in venous (enosuv).

Definitions for venous

adjective

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of a vein.
2. having, characterized by, or composed of veins.
3. pertaining to the blood in the pulmonary artery, right side of the heart, and most veins, that has become deoxygenated and charged with carbon dioxide during its passage through the body and that in humans is normally dark red.

Origin of venous

1620-30; variant of venose; see -ous

Examples for venous

The former is the same as the arterial, while the latter is the venous.

If made thick, how does it get from the windpipes into the venous artery?

The liver and the lungs, therefore, are the great purifiers of the venous blood.

The substance of the liver was tender, and full of bile and venous blood.

venous thromboembolism—a condition that leads to blood clots—can be prevented fairly easily.

I had triple the normal rate of venous thromboembolism—a blood clot forming disorder—and an elevated risk for male breast cancer.

Then we see wisdom just as much in the venous system, as in the arterial.

There is thus no mixing of arterial and venous blood in the heart.

Now, the venous system routing blood around the scarred parts of my liver is more complex, more liable to rupture.

Experimentally the eyeball can be made to burst by tying all the venous outlets from it.