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Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Rake-vein :: Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein..

Vertebrarterial :: Vertebrarterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebrae and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

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

Crosscut :: Crosscut (n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another..

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

Saphenous :: Saphenous (a.) Manifest; -- applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man.

Reticulated :: Reticulated (a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect..

Pampiniform :: Pampiniform (a.) In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

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..

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

String :: String (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein..

Elvan :: Elvan (a.) Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course..

Vascular :: Vascular (a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc..

Prester :: Prester (n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches..

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

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Bloodletting :: Bloodletting (n.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection..

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