As I sit back in the black leather chair with my leg resting on a paper towel to sop up excess blood and lymph, Mr. Plucinski places a leech about a centimeter from a raised, bluish vein that he says in time will become varicose.
Clinical examination: raised jugular vein pressure, peripheral oedema, ascites, loud p2, systolic murmur, central cyanosis.
The GPs had to fill in the indication for ordering an echocardiogram, current medication (diuretic, nitrate, RAAS-inhibitor, etc)., relevant medical history (hypertension, diabetes, coronary insufficiency, obesity, COPD) and the findings of physical examination (blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac murmur, raised jugular vein pressure and peripheral oedema).
As she sang her way from the Last Supper to Jesus' trial before Pilate, Peaches cycled through nearly every character from the Gospels, embodying them in her voice and face: a dainty, mocking Herod; a guttural Caiaphas, the high priest; and a bruised Judas hurling insults at Jesus so heatedly that it raised the veins in Peaches' ruddy face.
He spends the majority of the ride making sure his raised forearm veins are alive and well.
To give herself an effective hit, the drug user must apply a tourniquet, raise a vein, probe with the needle, neatly pierce the epidermis and the wall of the vein, watch for the smoky plume of blood to rise up through the needle and into the barrel of the syringe, release the tourniquet then push the plunger home.
Sedecaru administers the anaesthetic injection while the vet raises the vein on the dog's leg.
If you've ever seen someone shoot up or something, they need to tie off their arm, to raise the vein.
The effectiveness of this algorithm in determining venation polarity is verified by it correctly recognising raised or recessed veins in nine different experiments.
The coloring was flawless: a web of tan veins, raised as if in bas-relief, over a background of mottled green skin.
