Lexic.us

Definition of Esophageal veins

1. Noun. Small veins from the esophagus emptying into the brachiocephalic vein or the azygos veins.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Esophageal Veins

Literary usage of Esophageal veins

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

1. Surgery of the Upper Abdomen by John Blair Deaver, Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst (1921)
"The blood in the lower esophageal veins is returned to the heart by way of the lower azygos minor vein, as well as through some of the bronchial veins; and, ..."

2. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"... where it receives some esophageal veins. It then turns backward and passes from left to right behind the omental bursa and ends in the portal vein. ..."

3. Diseases of the digestive system by Frank Billings (1906)
"The blood then takes a retrogressive course, and, as the esophageal veins cannot withstand the force of such large amounts of blood, they become enormously ..."

4. Essentials of the practice of medicine: Prepared Especially for Students of by William R. Williams (1905)
"In time it is apt to fail, then there may be epistaxis, rupture of the esophageal veins with regurgitation or vomiting of blood ; bleeding into the stomach ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"A pathological dilatation of esophageal veins, usually due to the development of a collateral circulation after obstruction to the vena porta (cirrhosis ..."

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