PULMONARY VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary vein mean? 

• PULMONARY VEIN (noun)
  The noun PULMONARY VEIN has 1 sense:

1. any of four veins that carry arterial blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart

  Familiarity information: PULMONARY VEIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULMONARY VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of four veins that carry arterial blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pulmonary vein; vena pulmonalis

Hypernyms ("pulmonary vein" is a kind of...):

vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulmonary vein"):

inferior pulmonary vein; vena pulmanalis inferior (either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the inferior lobes of the lungs)

superior pulmonary vein; vena pulmonalis superior (either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the superior lobes of the lungs)

Holonyms ("pulmonary vein" is a part of...):

lung (either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood)

 Context examples 

A congenital heart disorder in which one or two pulmonary veins are not connected to the left atrium and drain into the right atrium instead.

(Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, NCI Thesaurus)

Aberrant drainage of one or more of the pulmonary veins which causes the return of oxygen-rich blood to the right atrium.

(Congenital Anomaly of Pulmonary Veins, NCI Thesaurus)

The left atrium receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary vein and pumps blood into the left ventricle.

(Cardiac Atrium, NCI Thesaurus)

The hole in the left atrium of the heart where the pulmonary vein enters.

(Opening of the Pulmonary Vein, NCI Thesaurus)