I had triple the normal rate of venous thromboembolism—a blood clot forming disorder—and an elevated risk for male breast cancer.
venous thromboembolism—a condition that leads to blood clots—can be prevented fairly easily.
Now, the venous system routing blood around the scarred parts of my liver is more complex, more liable to rupture.
The substance of the liver was tender, and full of bile and venous blood.
Experimentally the eyeball can be made to burst by tying all the venous outlets from it.
Then we see wisdom just as much in the venous system, as in the arterial.
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 former is the same as the arterial, while the latter is the venous.
There is thus no mixing of arterial and venous blood in the heart.
1620s, from Latin venosus "full of veins," from vena (see vein).
venous ve·nous (vē'nəs)
adj.
Of, relating to, or contained in the veins.
vein
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