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A utensil for holding liquids, etc.; in anatomy, a duct or channel for containing or conveying any fluids of the body, especially the blood. In botany, a form of tubes resulting from confluent cells, distinguished by peculiar markings from which they are designated as "dotted v's," "scalariform v's," etc. absorbent v's. The lacteals and lymphatics. blood v's. See artery, vein, and capillary, in chyliferous v's.of Absorbent v's which arise the villi the intestinal walls and terminate in the thoracic duett hemorrhoidal v's. The dilated veins of the rectum and anus, lacteal v's. See chy lifer oiis v's. lymphatic v's, lymph v's. See lymphatic.