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Definition of venous

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Venous (a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial..

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Venal :: Venal (a.) Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood..

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

Greedy :: Greedy (superl.) Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey..

Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.

Artery :: Artery (n.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries..

Haematogenesis :: Haematogenesis (n.) The transformation of venous arterial blood by respiration; hematosis.

Cormoraut :: Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.

Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves..

Fell :: Fell (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulation of the blood..

Phlebogram :: Phlebogram (n.) A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse..

Raphany :: Raphany (n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism..

Arterialization :: Arterialization (n.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aeration and hematosis..

Intravenous :: Intravenous (a.) Within the veins.

Ferocious :: Ferocious (a.) Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion..

Harpy :: Harpy (n.) One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.

Carnal :: Carnal (a.) Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

Flock :: Flock (n.) A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl..