coronary vein

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. any of several veins that receive blood from the heart wall and empty into the coronary sinus.

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Etymology

Origin of coronary vein

First recorded in 1825–35; coronary artery

Example Sentences

One option is to thread a thin metal electrode through a coronary vein on the outside of the heart to reach the middle regions of the heart, where it can stimulate the heart’s lower chambers.

From Science Magazine

In hopes of getting around this problem, Cosgriff-Hernandez and her colleagues set out to create a liquidlike gel they could inject throughout the length of a coronary vein.

From Science Magazine

The researchers then fed both through an ultrathin divided catheter that keeps the liquids separate and inserted the catheter into a coronary vein at the top of the hearts of live pigs.

From Science Magazine

Cavities of the Right Side of the Heart.—a, superior, and b, inferior vena cava; c, arch of aorta; d, pulmonary artery; e, right, and f, left auricular appendage; g, fossa ovalis; h, Eustachian valve; k, mouth of coronary vein; l, m, n, cusps of the tricuspid valve; o, o, papillary muscles; p, semilunar valve; q, corpus Arantii; r, lunula.

From Project Gutenberg

These small ramifications unite again into branches continually larger and larger, till they form two great tubes, called the venae cavae; which large veins are inserted into the right auricle of the heart; where a vein, termed the coronary vein of the heart, which returns the blood from the heart itself, also terminates.

From Project Gutenberg