Vein

(van). The veins are tube-lik sels that receive the blood from the lungs and peri organs of the body and convey it to the auricles heart. They are divided into three systems or gri the Pulmonary, Systemic, and Portal, the latter bejn an appendage of the systemic, its capillaries ram if; ing in the liver. In biology, one of the til bundles of a leaf. V., Acromial Thorac vein accompanying the artery of the same nam Angular, a continuation of the frontal vein 1 ward to become the facial at the lower margin 1 V., Auricular (anterior and posterior). 1. 1 h of the ear. 2. A vein from the cardiac ai Axillary, a large vein formed by the junci inner brachial vena;. It lies to the inner axillary artery and becomes the subclavian at 1 of the first rib. Vs., Azygos (three in nunated ventrad of the bodies of the thoracii they are a means of communication between rior and inferior venae cava?. V., Basilar, a vein pasting back over the cms cerebri to unite " the veins of Galen. V., Basilic, a vein on side of the arm. It unites with the inner brachial to form the axillary. Vs., Brachial, the veins accompanying the brachial artery. V., Brachio-cephalic. See V., Innominate. Vs. of Breschet, the veins of the diploe. Vs., Bronchial, veins that correspond to the bronchial arteries. V. -brooch, an instrument for compre ing varicose veins. V., Buccal, a vein coming from the buccinator muscle; it empties into the pterygoid plexus. V., Capsular, the supravein. Vs., Cardiac, the veins from the heart. V., Cephalic, a large vein of the arm, aed by the union of the median cephalic and icial radial. It opens into the axillary. Vs., N'ECK. superficial), veins accompanying the arteries of the same name. V., Conarial, a vein originating in the fine venous plexus over the conarium. It is one of the prebasal veins that unite to form the sub cerebral. Vs., Coronary: 1. Same as V., Cardiac. 2. Veins surrounding the margins of the lips. 3. See V., Gastric. V., Cystic, a vein returning the blood from the gallbladder it; empties into the portal vein. Vs., Dental, veins conveying the blood from the alveoli of the jaws. V., Diaphragmatic. See V., Phrenic. Vs., Emi ary, small veins pa ing through the cranial foramina and connecting the cerebral sinuses with external veins. Vs., Emulgent, a synonym of the renal veins. V., Epigastric, Deep, a vein emptying into the external iliac above Poupart's ligament. Vs., Ethmoid, veins corresponding to the arteries of the same name.