Venous Disease: Types, Symptoms Treatment - Cleveland Clinic Venous disease is any disease that affects your veins, which carry blood back to your heart Weak or damaged veins don’t work the way they should More than 30 million people in the U S are dealing with venous disease
Venous Disease - Johns Hopkins Medicine Venous Disease Overview Veins are thin-walled structures inside of which a set of valves keeps blood in the body flowing in one direction The heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the body’s tissues through thicker-walled arteries; the veins return that blood to the heart
Vein - Wikipedia Veins ( veɪn ) are blood vessels in the circulatory system of humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are those of the pulmonary and fetal circulations which carry oxygenated blood to the heart
Venous | definition of venous by Medical dictionary Of or relating to the veins in the body: venous circulation 2 Of, relating to, or being the blood in the veins or pulmonary arteries that is usually dark red as a result of low oxygen content 3 Having numerous veins, as a leaf or the wings of an insect ve′nous·ness n
Overview of the Venous System - Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders . . . Veins return blood to the heart from all the organs of the body Arteries carry blood with oxygen and nutrients away from the heart to the rest of the body The large veins parallel the large arteries and often share the same name In addition, many unnamed small veins form irregular networks and connect with the large veins
What is Vein Disease? - American Venous Forum Blood flow in veins in the legs and lower parts of the body travels upstream against gravity on its way back to the heart To prevent backward flow of blood, veins contain one-way valves to ensure that blood successfully travels up out of the leg and back to the heart instead of pooling in the leg