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  • Cerebral vein

    Any of the veins draining the brain. Cerebral veins differ from other veins in three respects: (1) cerebral veins do not run with cerebral arteries; (2) cerebral veins do not have valves; (3) the major cerebral veins are dural venous sinuses, not true veins.  

  • Axillary vein

    A vein that is formed by the merger of the basilic and brachial veins, drains blood from the upper extremity, and becomes the subclavian vein at the lateral border of the first rib.  

  • Vegetoanimal

    Characteristic of both plants and animals, such as the process of cell respiration in mitochondria.  

  • Vegetative function

    Any of the nonconscious body processes needed to keep the body alive.  

  • Vegetate

    To grow luxuriantly with the production of fleshy or warty outgrowths such as a polyp.  

  • Vectorcardiography

    Analysis of the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart’s action by a continuous series of loops (vectors) that represent the cardiac cycle.  

  • Spatial vectorcardiogram

    Depiction of the vectorcardiogram in three planes frontal, sagittal, and horizontal.  

  • Vectorcardiogram

    A graphic record of the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart’s action by means of a continuous series of vector loops. Analysis of the configuration of these loops permits certain statements to be made about the state of health or diseased condition of the heart. At any moment the electrical activity…

  • Mechanical vector

    A vector in or upon which growth and development of the infective agent do not occur.  

  • Biological vector

    An animal vector in which the disease-causing organism multiplies or develops prior to becoming infective for a susceptible person.  

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