arterial vein

ar·te·ri·al vein

a vein so called because it ramifies like an artery (portal vein) or because, while proceeding from the heart like an artery, it contains unoxygenated blood, like a vein (pulmonary artery).

Synonym(s): vena arteriosa

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In the next place, the consistency of the coats of which the arterial vein and the great artery are composed, sufficiently shows that the blood is impelled against them with more force than against the veins.

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She is battling rare arterial vein compressions, which causes agonising pelvic, groin and hip pain, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which affects the skin, bones and blood vessels.

Bride-to-be whose body rejects food left bed-bound and in agonising pain; Emma Green, 31, says she feels "like an old lady" because she is constantly weak while battling two conditions

The bite was vicious and deep and she was bleeding profusely from an arterial vein and she was washing it with seawater in a desperate attempt to clean the wound.

First things first

The skill of the surgeon as he delicately stitched a wobbling piece of arterial vein to the still pulsating heart was beyond anything else I've ever seen.

A REAL LITTLE HEART-THROB

``He cut through an arterial vein on the second wound.

`Murderer Hampson must never be free'

Glucose: Glucose concentrations of hepatic and arterial veins (Pless than 0.01 Table 2) and arterial flux (Table 3) were higher (Pless than 0.05) for goats fed HC diet than that fed HF diet.

EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF FORAGE AND CONCENTRATE ON THE METABOLISM OF GLUCOSE AY-HYDROXYBUTYRATE AND NONESTERIFIED FATTY ACID IN LIVERS OF NONLACTATING GOATS