Vein

Quick meaning: Vein is a noun meaning (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

Meaning

(anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

More Meanings

1. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
2. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
3. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
4. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
5. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
6. (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
7. (figurative) A style, tendency, or quality.

Example Sentences

in the same vein

The play is in a satirical vein.

certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.

Word Forms

• veins
• veining
• veined

Synonyms for vein

Depending on context, synonyms include vena, nervure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vena, nervure, vascular, venous, rib, thrombosis.

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