VENOUS BLOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venous blood mean? 

• VENOUS BLOOD (noun)
  The noun VENOUS BLOOD has 1 sense:

1. blood found in the veins

  Familiarity information: VENOUS BLOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENOUS BLOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blood found in the veins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Context example:

except in the pulmonary vein venous blood is rich in carbon dioxide and poor in oxygen

Hypernyms ("venous blood" is a kind of...):

blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets)

 Context examples 

Tissue congestion due to the obstruction of venous blood flow return.

(Passive Congestion, NCI Thesaurus)

The right pumps venous blood into the lungs and the left pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.

(Cardiac Ventricle, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A mixture of arterial blood, venous blood and interstitial fluid, which is found in the capillaries.

(Capillary Blood, NCI Thesaurus)

Intravenously administered drug is diluted in the pooled venous blood and pumped through lungs before entering systematic circulation (lung first-pass effect).

(Intravenous infusion, NCI Thesaurus)