veinous

comparative more veinous · superlative most veinous

1. Having prominent veins.

   The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous.

   1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

   Synonyms: veiny

2. From, or related to veins.

   I do a veinous draw once a month at the doctor's lab.

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   Farriers should have an awareness of blood flow and veinous arterial and capillary blood flow in the foot and how this flow changes under load and when it's unloaded.

   2004, Henry Heymering, American Farriers' Journal, volume 30

   Synonyms: venous, venal