venous
adjective/ˈviːnəs/
/ˈviːnəs/
(specialist)- of or contained in veins (= the tubes that carry liquids around the bodies of animals and plants)
- venous blood
Oxford Collocations DictionaryVenous is used with these nouns:- blood
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin venosus ‘having many veins’, from vena ‘vein’.Want to learn more?
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