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Vein vs Venogram - What's the difference?

vein | venogram |

As nouns the difference between vein and venogram

is that vein is (anatomy) a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart while venogram is (medicine) an x-ray of a vein that has been injected with an opaque material.

vein

English

(wikipedia vein)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • ...in the same vein ...
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
  • A style, tendency, or quality.
  • The play is in a satirical vein .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
  • * Waller
  • Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
  • A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
  • * Milton
  • down to the veins of earth
  • * Isaac Newton
  • Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .

    See also

    * artery * blood vessel * capillary * circulatory system * phlebitis * vena cava

    venogram

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia venogram) (en noun)
  • (medicine) An X-ray of a vein that has been injected with an opaque material
  • Synonyms

    * phlebogram

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