pulmonary vein

American  

noun

Anatomy.

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

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pulmonary vein British  

noun

1. any one of the four veins that convey oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart

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pulmonary vein Scientific  

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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Etymology

Origin of pulmonary vein

First recorded in 1695–1705

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.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2022

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

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2018

Why does not the pulmonary vein pulsate, seeing that it is numbered among the arteries?

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

If fumes or fuliginous vapours and air permeate this vessel, as they do the pulmonary bronchia, wherefore do we find neither air nor fuliginous vapours when we divide the pulmonary vein?

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

One small vein, called the oblique vein of Marshall, runs down into it across the posterior surface of the auricle, from below the left lower pulmonary vein, and is of morphological interest.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various