Aorta vs Vein - What's the difference?
aorta | vein |
(label) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
(label) The liveliest part of something.
(anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
(used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp
(botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
(zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
* Jonathan Swift
A style, tendency, or quality.
* Francis Bacon
* Waller
A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
* Milton
* Isaac Newton
As nouns the difference between aorta and vein
is that aorta is aorta while vein is .aorta
English
(wikipedia aorta)Noun
(en-noun)- Tracing their battles, I had many occasions to walk along Second Avenue, the aorta of the Lower East Side, exploring places that were once as vibrant and tumultuous as Midtown Manhattan. [http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/travel/escapes/26yiddish.html?8dpc]
Derived terms
* aortal * aorticSee also
* circulatory system ----vein
English
(wikipedia vein)Noun
(en noun)- ...in the same vein ...
- He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
- The play is in a satirical vein .
- certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
- Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
- down to the veins of earth
- Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .