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vein

/veɪn/

noun

one of the little tubes that return blood from the body to the heart

  • “My daughter cut her veins with a piece of glass.”Tatoeba
  • “A dye was injected into a vein of the patient's arm.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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