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vena

[ vee-nuh ]

noun

, Anatomy.
, plural ve·nae [vee, -nee].
  1. a vein.


vena

/ ˈviːnə /

noun

  1. anatomy a technical word for vein
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of vena1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vēna vein
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vena1

C15: from Latin vēna vein
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Example Sentences

Downtown darling Vena Cava showed off a structured collection, full of modern lines and alluring glimpses of skin.

By this passage it is taken into the right auricle, along with the impure blood of the vena cava.

Ante et post eam purus sanguis ita acriter ex dura terra effluxit, ut ex vena incisa.

Repairing next to Vena, he that offers oblations of water to the gods and the Pitris, obtains a car drawn by peacocks and cranes.

It is found in Egypt, and lives in the vena port and in all its ramifications in man.

From its metallic appearance and toughness, this bed is called vena ferrata, the iron vein.

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