Definition of Arteriovenous

1. Adjective. Connecting an artery to a vein. "An arteriovenous fistula"

Partainyms: Artery, Vein

Definition of Arteriovenous

1. Adjective. Refers to the spatial relationship between the primary arteries and the primary veins of the heart. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arteriovenous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Arteriovenous

1. Both arterial and venous, pertaining to or affecting an artery and a vein. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arteriovenous

arteriorrhexis
arterioscleroses
arteriosclerosis
arteriosclerosis obliterans
arteriospasm
arteriostenosis
arteriotomies
arteriotomy
arteriotony
arteriovenous (current term)
arteriovenous anastomosis
arteriovenous carbon dioxide difference
arteriovenous fistula
arteriovenous oxygen difference
arteriovenous shunt
arteriovenous strabismus syndrome
arterioventricular
arteritides
arteritis
arteritis nodosa
arteritis obliterans
arteritis virus

Literary usage of Arteriovenous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"DETAILS OF TECHNIC AND COMMENTARIES [Discussion of General Principles, the Methods; "When to Operate"; the Collaterals, and the Prognosis of arteriovenous ..."

2. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1921)
"The lessons gathered from these recent observations all point to the fact that the reputed benignity of arteriovenous aneurysms is more relative than actual ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"arteriovenous Aneurism Etiology.—This anomaly is caused by the entrance of the ... A peculiar form of this arteriovenous aneurism occurs at times AS THE ..."

4. A Treatise on surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"arteriovenous aneurism is very commonly the result of a wound, and in such cases the vessels will, in all probability, be healthy, if the disease is not of ..."

5. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"arteriovenous Aneurism. That form which results from the rupture of an aneurism of the ascending portion of ..."

6. Modern surgery, general and operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1910)
"Wounds produced by small bullets may result in arteriovenous aneurysm (Matas, ... arteriovenous aneurysm used to be most frequent at the Fig. ..."

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