venous
/ˈviː.nəs/
venous adjective: of or pertaining to veins.
Adjective
venous (comparative more venous, superlative most venous)
- Of or pertaining to veins.
- Her venous circulation was poor, leading to varicose veins.
- Having passed through the capillaries and given up oxygen for the tissues and become charged with carbon dioxide.
- Possessing veins.
- It was a sample of venous tissue.
- Having numerous veins.
- The tree has highly serrated and venous leaves.
venous meaning in Tamil and Urdu
venous in Tamil
- சிரையின், சிரையிய, சிரையில்
venous in Urdu
- نسوں کا, وریدی
Examples of venous in a sentence
- This population of cells continues to codistribute closely with venous elements and remains excluded from a vascular regions in the developing wing bud.
- Where venous pulsation was spontaneous ophthalmodynamometry could not be performed and VPP was considered equal to IOP.
- These complications consisted of severe cholangitis, large abscesses and sepsis, and portal venous or mesentericoportal venous thrombosis.
Forms of venous
| comparative | more venous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most venous |
Origin of venous
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.
Words formed from venous
- 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
Phrases with venous
Words that rhyme with venous
Questions about venous
- What does venous mean?
- Venous means of or pertaining to veins.
- What is venous in Tamil?
- Venous in Tamil is சிரையின், சிரையிய, சிரையில். See Venous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is venous?
- Venous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce venous?
- Venous is pronounced /ˈviː.nəs/.
Words near venous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: venous (page history and authors); venous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); venous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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