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"VEINS" is a plural of: vein. |
Date "VEINS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The ramifications of the conducting vessels from the petiole through the leaf blade. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The vessels carrying blood toward the heart. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In biology, a vein is a blood vessel which carries blood to the heart. Veins form part of the circulatory system. The vessels carrying blood away from the heart are known as arteries.In systemic circulation de-oxygenated blood from the capillary blood vessels is taken by veins to the right part of the heart. Differently, in the pulmonary circulation oxygenated blood from the lungs is taken to the left part of the heart by pulmonary veins. Another special case is portal circulation where the portal vein transports blood rich in products of digestion from the intestines to the liver.
Names of important veins:
Veins are used medically as access to the blood stream, permitting the withdrawal of blood specimens (venipuncture) for testing purposes, and enabling the infusion of fluid, electrolytes, nutrition, and medications. The latter is called intravenous delivery. It can be done by an injection with a syringe, or by inserting a catheter (a flexible tube).
- Pulmonary veins
- Portal vein
- Superior vena cava
- Inferior vena cava
- Femoral vein
If an intravenous catheter has to be inserted, for most purposes this is done into a peripheral vein (a vein near the surface of the skin in the hand or arm, or less desirably, the leg.) Some highly concentrated fluids or irritating medications must flow into the large central veins, which are sometimes used when peripheral access cannot be obtained. Catheters can be threaded into the superior vena cava for these uses: if long term use is thought to be needed, a more permanent access point can be inserted surgically.
The precise location of veins is much more variable from person to person than that of arteries.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vein."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VEINS | English | Variability of exchanges in the Northern seas | Environment |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Staidness; Adjective: gravity, sobriety, Quakerism; philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of mind. |
Excitation | Phrase: the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins; the eye glistening - "in a fine frenzy rolling"; the head turned; "when the going gets tough, the tough get going". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VEINS |
| English words defined with "VEINS": anterior labial veins ♦ Cardinal veins, central veins of liver, ciliary veins, conjunctival veins ♦ episcleral veins, esophageal veins ♦ meningeal veins ♦ oesophageal veins ♦ posterior labial veins ♦ scleral veins, superior epigastric veins. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VEINS": Brachiocephalic Veins ♦ Cerebral Veins, conjugated veins ♦ dead veins ♦ flying veins ♦ Hepatic Veins ♦ Jugular Veins ♦ linked veins ♦ Pulmonary Veins ♦ quarter-point veins ♦ Renal Veins, reticulated veins ♦ Umbilical Veins, united veins. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "VEINS": Shoading. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Just stick it in my veins! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck) Not everyone has ice running through their veins like you do (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) And then it's all black hair and veins and lightning bolts (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | At night i could hear the blood in my veins, (STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Got fire in your veins (Urgent; performing artist: Foreigner) Which crawled beneath my veins (Torn; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia) Oh I've got lightning in my veins (RHYTHM OF MY HEART; performing artist: Rod Stewart) Tequila in his heartbeat, His veins burned gasoline (18 And Life; performing artist: Skid Row) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Very Close Veins (1934) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown on mammogram is a small cancerous lesion as well as calcific deposits in veins. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | This schistosome parasite enters the body through the skin of persons coming in contact with infested waters. The adult worm lives in the veins of its host. The parasite is magnified x256 in this photograph. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot. |
 | From this lateral view illustration of the genus Culiseta mosquito we see its thorax and wing, noting the branching pattern of the cross veins branching from 4th wing vein. Credit: CDC. |  | The Veins & Lungs / Engraved and printed by W. and A.K. Johnston. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Manpower. Tractor driver. With the blood of the first Americans in his veins, this man, half Indian, has joined the production army and is helping to "give'em the stuff to fight with!" He is a tractor operator on a guayule rubber plantation in Salinas, Ca. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Green Veins" by Alex Furr Commentary: "Close up of a large plant leaf." | "Drug's in my veins" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "A pict I took for a personnal project on drugs in the rave culture." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace Bushnell | Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. |
Thomas Traherne | You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was in her veins the blood of the gipsy and of the adventuress who goes barefoot |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | It was an abnormally high forehead, lined with delicate blue veins at the temples |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These lesions consist of abnormally enlarged veins. (references) | |
They are comprised of snarled tangles of arteries and veins. (references) | ||
The oxygen-rich blood is returned to the heart through the pulmonary veins. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VEINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.49% of the time. "VEINS" is used about 791 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.49% | 787 | 8,794 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.51% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 791 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "VEINS": anterior labial veins ♦ Brachiocephalic Veins ♦ Cardinal veins ♦ central veins of liver ♦ Cerebral Veins ♦ ciliary veins ♦ conjunctival veins ♦ cut veins ♦ cutting veins ♦ episcleral veins ♦ esophageal veins ♦ Hepatic Veins ♦ ice water in one's veins ♦ Jugular Veins ♦ linked veins ♦ meningeal veins ♦ Mesenteric Veins ♦ oesophageal veins ♦ posterior labial veins ♦ Pulmonary Veins ♦ Renal Veins ♦ scleral veins ♦ superior epigastric veins ♦ Umbilical Veins ♦ Varicose Veins ♦ veins and arteries. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "VEINS": cross-veins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
varicose veins.com | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "VEINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | توسع الأوردة (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разширени вени (varices, varicose veins). (various references) | |
Chinese | 静脉 (Vein), 彪 (a tiger-cat, streaks, stripes). (various references) | |
Czech | křeèové žíly (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Danish | ribbe (batten, batten plate, channel, distortion of the mesh, feather, fin, gill, rasp, rib, shaving board, shim, stall bar, stay plate, strengthening rib, tie plate, wall-bar, web), nervenet, bladstreng (leaf vein). (various references) | |
Dutch | nerven, nerf (rib, vein). (various references) | |
Finnish | lehtisuoni (leaf vein). (various references) | |
French | nervure (vein). (various references) | |
German | Adern, Venen, Neigungen (aptitudes, aptnesses, biases, declinations, inclinations, likings, proclivities, pronenesses, propensities, tendencies), Geäder (venation). (various references) | |
Greek | νεύρωση (neurosis), νεύρα (nerves, thews), νευρικές ίνες, δευτερεύουσες νευρώσεις. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לגיד (cut veins, porge the sinew), גיוד (cutting veins). (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszér (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Italian | nervature. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 葉脈 (veins of a leaf). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ようみゃく (veins of a leaf). (various references) | |
Korean | 정맥 (intravenous, Vein, Venous). (various references) | |
Manx | cuishleeyn attit (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | einsvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nervuras (ribbing), nervura (groin, nerve, vein). (various references) | |
Russian | варикозный вена (varicose veins), варикозная вена (varicose veins). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vene. (various references) | |
Spanish | vena (grain, streak, vein, vena), nervio (fiber, fibre, nerve, rib, sinew, stamina), nervadura (midrib, nerve, rib). (various references) | |
Swedish | bladnerver, bladnervatur. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "VEINS": deveins. (additional references) | |
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"VEINS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eins, eving, Evinos, vaina, vains, vean, veena, vegin, vehn, veign, veina, veine, veing, veinl, veint, veis, veits, velin, Velina, venes, veness, venez, veni, venine, venis, venise, venk, venw, venz, veyn, veyne, veys, vezirs, vians, vien, viena, viens, vient, vinns, vins, voin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VEINS" (pronounced vā"nz) |
| 4 | v ā" n z | vanes. |
| 3 | -ā" n z | attains, constrains, contains, banes, brains, campaigns, canes, chains, champagnes, complains, cranes, disdains, domains, drains, entertains, explains, gains, grains, Janes, lanes, mains, maintains, manes, obtains, pains, panes, pertains, plains, planes, rains, refrains, regains, reigns, reins, remains, restrains, retains, sprains, stains, strains, sustains, terrains, trains, wanes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vines. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: nevi, sine, vein, vies, vine, vise. | |
-2 letters: ens, ins, sei, sen, sin, vie, vis. | |
-3 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: envies, envois, givens, invest, knives, levins, livens, naives, navies, nieves, ovines, savine, snivel, venins, vixens. | |
+2 letters: alevins, bovines, deveins, divines, endives, enviers, envious, evanish, evasion, evinces, invades, invents, inverse, inverts, invests, invites, invokes, kelvins, naivest, natives, navvies, niveous, novices, pensive, ravines, renvois, savines, serving, shriven, sieving, silvern, snivels, striven, sylvine, tensive, unlives, unveils, vahines, vainest, valines, veiners, venines, venires, venison, verdins, versine, versing, version, vespine, vesting, vinasse, viniest, viseing, wiverns. | |
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