Definition of vein

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Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

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Varicose :: Varicose (a.) Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers..
Veiny :: Veiny (a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble..
Splenical :: Splenic (a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein..
Cirsocele :: Cirsocele (n.) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
Shoading :: Shoading (n.) The tracing of veins of metal by shoads.
Ichor :: Ichor (n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.
Capillary :: Capillary (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels..
Varix :: Varix (n.) A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein..
Anastomosis :: Anastomosis (n.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Rugose :: Rugose (a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound..
Lance :: Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein..
Barite :: Barite (n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins..
Penninerved :: Penninerved (a.) Pinnately veined or nerved.
Run :: Run (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes..
Bloodwort :: Bloodwort (n.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing..
Rider :: Rider (n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it..
Rake-vein :: Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein..
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..
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