VENOUS PRESSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venous pressure mean? 

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

1. the pressure exerted on the walls of the veins by the circulating blood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENOUS PRESSURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The pressure exerted on the walls of the veins by the circulating blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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

blood pressure (the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health)

 Context examples 

A unit of pressure defined by a column of water with a height of one centimeter, frequently used to measure central venous pressure, intracranial pressure, and for pressures during mechanical ventilation.

(Centimeters of Water, NCI Thesaurus)