venovenous

English

Etymology

veno- +‎ venous

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːnəs

Adjective

venovenous (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Describing any technique in which blood is taken from a vein, processed, then returned to a vein.
   • 2011, Pauline K. Park, “Assessment of Noncardiac Perioperative Risk”, in Michael W. Mulholland, Gerard M. Doherty, editors, Complications in Surgery, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 86:

     Continuous venovenous hemodialysis may be indicated to relieve volume overload in the hemodynamically unstable patient.

   • 2015 July 10, Nuno Rocha Pereira, António Sarmento, Lurdes Santos, “Simultaneous diagnosis of severe imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV: report of three cases”, in Malaria Journal‎^[1], volume 14, →DOI:

     He needed continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration during 4 days and then he was put on intermittent haemodialysis.

Related terms

• arteriovenous