Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
In tetrapods, a vein that returns blood to the heart after it has circulated through the lungs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any of four veins that carry arterial blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: vena pulmonalis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vein, vena, venous blood vessel
Narrower terms: inferior pulmonary vein, vena pulmanalis inferior, superior pulmonary vein, vena pulmonalis superior
History
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
