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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or connecting both arteries and veins.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to an artery and a vein.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective connecting an artery to a vein.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Refers to the spatial relationship between the primary arteries and the primary veins of the heart.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective connecting an artery to a vein

Etymologies

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artery + vein.

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