venous blood

/ˌvinəs bləd/
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Definitions of venous blood
  1. noun
    blood found in the veins
    “except in the pulmonary vein venous blood is rich in carbon dioxide and poor in oxygen”
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    type of:
    blood
    the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
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