venous.

Relating to veins or the venous circulation.

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Words that belong together

• venous blood
• a venous channel

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The diagram followed the venous channel beneath the surface.

They identified the venous blood by its source rather than its color alone.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Relational adjective; comparative and superlative normally not used. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.