venous blood vessel

1. 1.

   a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

   “all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood”

   Synonymsveinvena

   Broaderblood vessel

   Narroweraccessory cephalic veinaccessory hemiazygos veinaccessory vertebral veinaccompanying veinanastomotic veinangular veinanterior vertebral veinappendicular veinarcuate vein of the kidneyauricular vein

   Part ofcirculatory system

Questions about venous blood vessel

What does venous blood vessel mean?

venous blood vessel means "a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart".

What is another word for venous blood vessel?

Close synonyms include vein, vena. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is venous blood vessel a common word?

venous blood vessel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.