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Interveined :: Interveined (a.) Intersected, as with veins..

Orifice :: Orifice (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound..

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..

Gang :: Gang (v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Rectinerved :: Rectinerved (a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.

Fleam :: Fleam (n.) A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet..

Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..

Portal :: Portal (a.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery..

Country :: Country (adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.

Marble :: Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc..

Fault :: Fault (n.) A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

Lieno-intestinal :: Lieno-intestinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog..

Hemadynamometer :: Hemadynamometer (n.) An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer..

Random :: Random (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.

Veiny :: Veiny (a.) Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble..

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

Fret :: Fret (n.) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins..

Squat :: Squat (n.) A small vein of ore.

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..

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

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