None of the hepatic veins have valves.

The wings are vitreous (transparent) with light brown veins.

The blood veins in our hands echoed a course of water traces on the Earth.

In veins or smaller arteries, where flow is not as constant, they are less apparent.

He attempted suicide twice once by cutting his veins and recently by trying to hang himself.

In these animals, the left atrium still serves the purpose of collecting blood from the pulmonary veins.

Blood clotting in the veins of the legs is estimated to occur in 6 to 25 of people.

Venous stasis, or venostasis, is a condition of slow blood flow in the veins, usually of the legs.

He is the author of Open Veins of Latin America, the Memory of Fire Trilogy, Mirrors, and many other works.

They visit sick peoples homes and overwhelmed Ebola treatment centers, sticking needles in the veins of physically unpredictable, highly contagious people.

At the same time, the ancient sense of cultural superiority that runs in Chinese veins makes feelings of inferiority hard to bear.

Kazakhstan is not part of the Middle East Kazakhs do not have Chinese blood in their veins and not everything about Kazakhstan is bad.

When she was brought to the health centre, the nurse found that her veins had collapsed and she could not give her any injection.

I needed to figure out how to eat like a normal human being, since I'd been eating through a tube in my chest and through my veins.

Foramina inside the body of humans and other animals typically allow muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, or other structures to connect one part of the body with another.

There is a lesson for you to learn concerning cattle . We provide pleasant milk for you to drink within the delicate system of their veins and arteries .

There is a lesson for you to learn concerning cattle . We provide pleasant milk for you to drink within the delicate system of their veins and arteries .

It happens when there's a thickening in the pulmonary veins, making the right side of the heart work overtime, and causing what I call the reverse Grinch effect.

So imagine that you make a solution full of this sticky material and inject it into the veins of someone who has cancer, everything's going to get lit up.

In the 1970s, Galeano attained worldwide recognition for his 1971 book, The Open Veins of Latin America the same book Hugo Chávez gave Barack Obama, when they first met in 2009.

The Bush administration continues to have no plans to sew up the veins it has opened with its medieval economic policy, which holds that bleeding revenue from the government cures all economic problems.

While humans, as well as other vertebrates, have a closed cardiovascular system (meaning that the blood never leaves the network of arteries, veins and capillaries), some invertebrate groups have an open cardiovascular system.

Having run out of basis points to cut from interest rates, the Fed has turned to the quantity dimension of the credit cycle injecting massive doses of liquidity into the collapsed veins of zombie consumers.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the ones in their arms and their legs collapse. Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent. Here are just a few of the investments that I personally think make sense.

A Ligurian people, the Victimuli, fanned out in the plain of Biella (the Bessa ) and exploited gold veins near the Elvo, an activity which continued through the early Middle Ages, and even today panning for gold continues as a local hobby.

In Open Veins, Galeano wrote that Chile with its vast nitrate deposits, Brazil with its abundant rain forests, and small Venezuelan towns with their oil reserves had painful reasons to believe in the mortality of fortunes that nature bestows and imperialism usurps.

There are three major types of blood vessels the arteries, which carry the blood away from the heart the capillaries, which enable the actual exchange of water and chemicals between the blood and the tissues and the veins, which carry blood from the capillaries back toward the heart.

I said somebody here must surely know, because despite the fact that there aren't that many Hungarians to begin with, and the further fact that, so far as I know, there's not a drop of Hungarian blood in my veins, at every critical juncture of my life there has been a Hungarian friend or mentor there beside me.