Usually means: Carry oxygenated blood to heart.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word pulmonary veins:

General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pulmonary veins: Merriam-Webster
  2. pulmonary veins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pulmonary veins: Vocabulary.com
  4. pulmonary veins: Wiktionary
  5. Pulmonary veins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Pulmonary Veins: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pulmonary Veins: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pulmonary veins: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Pulmonary Veins: Anatomy of the Human Body
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Pulmonary Veins: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pulmonary_vein as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pulmonary vein)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) In tetrapods, a vein that returns blood to the heart after it has circulated through the lungs.
▸ Also see pulmonary_vein


Opposite:
systemic veins, venae cavae

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systemic veins, venae cavae




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