Veins

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
VV
Pronunciation
/veɪnz/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. The surgeon placed catheters through the veins and arteries near the base of the head.
  2. If you have varicose veins, consider wearing elastic support hose.
  3. My mother has had unsightly varicose veins for years
  4. With this disease the veins in the liver can block up, and all sorts of damage follows.
  5. Small veins are removed from the leg and used to bypass the blocked up stretch of coronary arteries.

Other meanings of VV