(relational) Of or pertaining to veins. / (relational, of blood) Having passed through the capillaries and given up oxygen for the tissues and become charged with carbon dioxide. / Possessing veins.

plural of venous star

A red nodule under the skin formed by a dilated vein due to increase in intravenous pressure.

Relating to the portal vein

(medicine) venostasis

(anatomy) A large vein or passage (as the canal of Schlemm) for venous blood. / (anatomy) Alternative form of sinus venosus.

(anatomy) A network of valveless veins in the human body, connecting the deep pelvic veins and thoracic veins (draining the inferior end of the urinary bladder, breast, and prostate) to the internal vertebral venous plexuses.

(physiology) The indirectly observed pressure of the venous system via the visualisation of the internal jugular vein.

(anatomy) Any of numerous venous channels (as the sagittal sinuses, straight sinus, and transverse sinuses) that are situated between the two layers of the dura mater, that have no valves, and that drain blood from the brain and the bones forming the cranium and empty it into the internal jugular vein.

plural of jugular venous pressure