Meanings (ES + gloss)
vena
A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
vena
In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
vena
The nervure of an insect’s wing.
filón • vena • veta
A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
Phrases
Giacomini veinSylvian veinThebesian veinanal veinantenodal veinaxillary veinazygos veinazygous veinball veinbasilic veinblue veinblue-veined cheesebrachiocephalic veincardinal veincollateral veincommon iliac veindeep vein thrombosisdeep-vein thrombosisdrain the main veinemissary veinfemoral veinfissure veingate veingreat cardiac veingreat cerebral veingreat saphenous veingreater saphenous veinhepatic portal veinhepatic veinin a similar veinin the same veinin the vein ofinfraorbital veininnominate veininternal jugular veinjugular veinlesser saphenous veinmaxillary veinpancreatic veinportal vein