English Explanatory Dictionary

venous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to veins.
  2. Having passed through the capillaries and given up oxygen for the tissues and become charged with carbon dioxide.
  3. Possessing veins.
  4. Having numerous veins.

Pronunciation

/ˈviː.nəs/ En-us-Venus.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-venous.wav

Word forms

venous more venous most venous

Etymology

Morphologically vein + -ous, which is a borrowing from Latin vēnōsus (“full of veins, veiny”), from vēna (“a blood vessel, vein”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of venose.

Related words

venal

Derived words

allovenous arteriolovenous arteriovenous atriovenous cerebrovenous endovenous fibrovenous hepatovenous intervenous intravenous jugular venous pressure lymphaticovenous lymphovenous microvenous nonvenous paravenous peritoneovenous perivenous portal venous portovenous pyelovenous retrovenous sinovenous transvenous venously venous plexus venous sinus venous star venous stasis venovenous
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