big vein

big vein

[′big ‚vān]
(plant pathology)
A soil-borne virus disease of lettuce characterized by enlargement and yellowing of the leaf veins.
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"We could make an incision in the groin and tie off the veins, or cut a little higher up and do the same thing, or we could stick a telescope in the belly button and put a clip on the enlarged vein(s), or we could ask a radiologist to put a needle in the big vein in the neck and squirt some glue or metal coils to block the enlarged veins from inside."
The adolescent varicocele: Attempting to de-muddify the fuzzification (1)
I had my legs scanned by Professor Whiteley and a dodgy valve was found in a big vein in my right leg.
Could a new 'superglue' end the pain of varicose veins? A NEW PROCEDURE IS PROMISING TO SEAL UP VEINS PAIN FREE AND IN MINUTES. MICHELE O' CONNOR LOOKS AT THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO SUFFERERS
If a little higher yet, the bullet will cut the vena cava, the big vein right under the spine, often breaking the spine as well.
Make it count: shot placement on big game
Mechanics, if your face is red and there's a big vein pulsing in your forehead, you're probably being a little heavy-handed with the desiccant assembly on the doghouse body of the gunner's primary sight (GPS).
Easy on the cover screws
"In fact there were so many Evanses in Novello's bloodline that the family were known locally as The Big Vein. It was said one of his ancestors had 75 grandchildren."
The roots of Ivor Novello's talent
Ryder developed five new kinds of iceberg lettuce breeding lines that offer resistance to both big vein virus and lettuce mosaic virus.
Putting the crunch on lettuce's worst enemies
On the list too is the successful control of lettuce big vein and canker resistant parsnips, the unique feeding characteristics of the plum spittlebug and the F1 male sterile leek which should go down a bomb in the clubs.
Changing lives and the face of horticulture; WARWICKSHIRE RESEARCH COMPANY HORTITECH CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND THE WORK OF ITS 500 SCIENTISTS
In the meanwhile, 10-20 ml of blood is withdrawn from one of the big veins in the hand and is centrifuged to separate the platelets and plasma from the red blood and other cells.
This therapy may help to restore texture, tone and natural glow of your skin
You feel his index finger and thumb on big veins both sides of your neck, then pressure, slow, relentless, the way pressure seems not static but moving through something, like his pincer grip and newt-like fingertips are converging at a point somewhere in your voice box.
Inches
Passion isn't shouting and screaming with big veins popping out of your neck.
Football: THE EYES HAVE IT HAVE IT; MANAGERIAL MERRY-GO-ROUND New boss Mowbray wants to get inside Hibs players' minds
Was almost afraid to look, but did and found I'd missed the big veins. Lots of blood but no real damage.
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