veni-

American  

1. variant of veno- before a vowel.

   venipuncture.

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Usage

What does veni- mean? Veni- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “vein.” A vein, in contrast to an artery, is one of the systems of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.Veni- is occasionally used in medical terms, especially in anatomy and pathology.Veni- comes from the Latin vēna, meaning “blood vessel, vein.” The Latin word vēna is also ultimately the source of such vein-based words as venous. Veni- is a variant of veno-.Want to know more? Read our Words That Use veno- article. Also see our Words That Use ven- and Words That Use vene- for even more forms.

Example Sentences

“There is no national plan for sinkholes,” says George Veni, a hydrogeologist who spent 16 years as the executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute.

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Sinkholes, Veni explains, “are dispersed over time and throughout the country.”

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The older the mine, the greater the chance of collapse, according to Veni.

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Veni spent years running NCKRI’s annual sinkhole conference, a multidisciplinary examination of the engineering and environmental impacts of karst, a type of terrain formed over thousands of years from the chemical process of rain collecting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it falls.

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The former are “good” sinkholes: “About 700 million people worldwide depend on karst aquifers as their sole or primary source of water, including many millions in the USA,” Veni says.

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