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Course :: Course (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins..

Bunny :: Bunny (n.) A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

Ribbing :: Ribbing (n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like..

Stagnate :: Stagnate (v. t.) To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnates in a close room..

Phlebotomy :: Phlebotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting..

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

Labial :: Labial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia; as, labial veins..

Veined :: Veined (a.) Having fibrovascular threads extending throughout the lamina; as, a veined leaf..

Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..

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..

Calcedon :: Calcedon (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones..

Veinless :: Veinless (a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf..

Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.

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..

Selvedge :: Selvedge (n.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4..

Slicking :: Slicking (n.) Narrow veins of ore.

Vein :: Vein (n.) One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2..

Bleed :: Bleed (v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein..

Suprahyoid :: Suprahepatic (a.) Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the liver; -- applied to the branches of the hepatic veins..

Syringe :: Syringe (v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein..

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