Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of blood and lymph vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That portion of anatomy and physiology which deals with the blood-vessels and lymphatics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The branch of
anatomy dealing withblood vessels andlymphatics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of medical science that studies the blood and lymph vessels and their disorders
Etymologies
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angio- + -logy
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Examples
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There is a need to know more about angiology, because there are many angiology problems among the population.
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Osteology treats of the skeleton, myology of the muscles, angiology of the blood vessels, splanchology the digestive organs or department of the interior, and so on.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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