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Endovenous vs Intravenous - What's the difference?

endovenous | intravenous |

As adjectives the difference between endovenous and intravenous

is that endovenous is inside a vein while intravenous is inside the veins.

As a noun intravenous is

a dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.

endovenous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (anatomy) Inside a vein.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 10, author=Camille Sweeney, title=Removing the Web of Spider Veins, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“What usually happens is someone comes in for endovenous treatments for larger veins and a lot of times they’ll say, ‘While you’re at it, take a look at these smaller veins and let me know if you can do anything about them,’ ” Dr. Zelickson said. }}

    intravenous

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Inside the veins.
  • Noun

    (-) (abreviated as IV )
  • (medicine) A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
  • Get his morphine intravenous started stat!

    Synonyms

    * drip * intravenous therapy