pulmonary vein
a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
Origin of pulmonary vein
1Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use pulmonary vein in a sentence
Each lobule has a branch of the pulmonary artery entering it, and a similar rootlet of the pulmonary vein leaving it.
A Practical Physiology | Albert F. BlaisdellIt is then collected by the branches of the pulmonary vein, and conveyed to the left chamber of the heart.
Zoonomia, Vol. I | Erasmus DarwinThe opening of the sinus venosus is to the right of this shell, that of the pulmonary vein to the left.
It is from the pulmonary vein that connection is made with the aorta, starting the blood on its course through the body again.
Physiology | Ernest G. MartinFrom the lungs the blood returns through the pulmonary vein to the left auricle.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition | Vernon L. Kellogg
British Dictionary definitions for pulmonary vein
any one of the four veins that convey oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for pulmonary vein
Any of the veins that carry blood with high levels of oxygen from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Browse