A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Hoblyn, Richard D. (Richard Dennis), 1803-1886.
Date:
1858
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    4. Vena arteriosa. The portal vein ; so called because it ramifies like an artery, and conveys blood for secretion ; but it is an arterial vein in another sense, being a vein to the hepatic artery, and an artery to the hepatic vein.-—Kienian. 5. Vena ozygos (a, priv., ^vyo^, a yoke). A vein of the thorax, which has no corresponding vein—no yolte-fellow. 6. Ve7ia semi-azygos. A considerable brancli which ascends parallel to the vena azygos, on the left side of the vertebra;. 7. Vena haxilica. The royal or large vein of the arm. The ancients termed the basilic vein of tlie right arm, the vein of tlie liver, or vena liepatica bradtii ; and that of the left, vena splenica braehii. See Sal- vatella. 8. Vena cephalica pollicis. The vein of the back of the thumb, which passes over the outside of the wrist. From this vein, and the division of the plexus of the back of the hand, proceeds the cephalica minor, or radialis externa, which, as it rises upon the outside of the humerus, becomes tlie (i7-eat cephalic vein. 9. Vence Galeni. Two parallel branches, by which the choroid plexus returns its blood. They terminate in the straight sinus. 10. VencB peronecB. The two or three vena: comites of the fibular artery. IL Vence vorlicosw. A designation of the veins which principally compose the crternal venous layer of the choroid membrane, from the vorticose marking which they present on the membrane. 12. Venm Thehesii. iVIinute venules, also called vence minimcB, which convey the venous blood from the substance of the heart into the right auricle. VENA MEDINE'NSIS. This is the irk Medini of the Arabian witers, improperly translated vena, instead of vermis Medinensis, or the Guinea-worm. VENERA'TION. A term in phrenology indicative of a disposition to venerate whatever is great and good, and considered by Dr. Gall the index of religious adoration. Its organ is situated on the front part of the top of the^ middle of the head. When the organ is much developed, it causes a remarkable elevation of the head. VENESE'CTION [vena, a vein, sectio, a division). Phlebotomy. The opening a vein for the purpose of blood-letting. See Blood-letting. VENE'TIAN RED. Bolus Veneta. A kind of red ochre, brought from Venire. , r VE'NICE WHITE. A white pigment consisting of carbonate ot lead and sulphate of baryta. VEN''1'RAL {venter, the belly). A term in descriptive anatomy applied to the aspect or region of the belly. (See Dorsal.) I'he term is also applied to that suture of the legume to which the seeds are attached ; the opiiosite suture is the dorsal. . ^ j ■ VE'NTRICOSE {ventriosvs, pot-bellied). Bellying; intlated in some part, as applied to certain corollas, &c. VENTRl'CULUS (dim. of venter, the belly). The stomach, the principal organ of digestion. The term ventncle is also a|iplied to two cavities of the heart, which communicate with the two auricles; and to several cavities of the brain. ■ r ,i „ 1. Ventriculus succenturiatus. A reserve stomach; a name ot tlic duodenum.