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pulmonary vein

noun

Anatomy.
  1. a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.


pulmonary vein

noun

  1. any one of the four veins that convey oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

pulmonary vein

  1. Any of the veins that carry blood with high levels of oxygen from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pulmonary vein1

First recorded in 1695–1705
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Example Sentences

Doctors close a wound to the left pulmonary vein, then try to revive her with two hours of chest massage — first externally and then directly to the heart.

Then he lifted the organ with his left hand and cut behind it with his right, one snip on each of the four pulmonary veins that run lung to heart.

Just as I was about to suture the pulmonary vein, the doors of the operating theatre burst open.

It was a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation, or PAVM, an abnormal connection between a pulmonary vein and an artery.

“Right inferior mediastinal mass encasing and occluding the right inferior pulmonary vein” became “I have something that looks like a tumor in the middle of my chest.”

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