saphena
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of saphena
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin < Arabic ṣāfin
Example Sentences
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The blood spavin is situated in front and to the inside of the hock and is merely a varicose or dilated condition of the saphena vein.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Down here, you see, the vena saphena, was completely severed.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
The saphena vein can generally be recognised, and is almost always safe out of the way of this incision at its inner side.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
The continuity of the artery may be restored by grafting into the gap left after excision of the sac a segment of the great saphena vein.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
If the small saphena system also is involved, and if communicating branches are dilated, the veins fill up from below more rapidly.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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