Sentence examples for on a vein from inspiring English sources

'The circulation to the leg had been cut off because of pressure on a vein in my groin,' she said.

He and another partner soon turned their attentions to speculating, but after stumbling on a vein rich in silver and gold they waited so long to begin mining it that their claim expired.

After that, the flow of blood in the hindwing veins was studied through simulation to determine the maximum pressure on a vein surface and the minimum blood flow in flight.

Mr Tsang may have picked up on the theme or perhaps he is drawing on a vein of paternalism left over from Britain's colonial rule.But it also represents a misplaced effort at public relations.

The new attitude drew on a vein that was comic, poetic, and fantastic, exploring an irrational quality akin to humour inherent in the creative process itself, as well as on a reserve of ironic detachment.

He looked at tiny holes on a vein running along Vik's wrist.

Some 12 miles (20 km) northeast of the town lies Ridi Vihara, the "silver monastery," which was founded (100 bce) on the site of a vein of silver.

A second catheter was inserted retrogradely into the distal portion of a vein on the contralateral hand for blood sampling.

The epithelium expands outwards into the spaces between veins, and sheets of epithelium and connective tissue on opposite sides of a vein gradually come together to internalize the vein and form an internal partition or primary alveolar septum.

The continuous volume and pressure changes as a result of intradialytic volume gains can cause significant physiologic stress on the endothelium of a vein.

But modern literary critics, on the alert for a vein of eroticism in the writer's fiction, read it in more complex ways.