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cross-vein
[ kraws-veyn, kros- ]
noun
, Zoology.
- a transverse vein that connects adjacent longitudinal veins in the wing of an insect.
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The cross-vein and the cell normally cut off by it are absent.
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Hypotenuses: in Odonata; the simple or broken cross-vein between media 4, and cubitus 1, forming outer boundary of triangle.
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The cross-vein between the third and the fourth veins is often absent because of the shifting.
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You will sever the big cross vein that connects the two "jugular" veins in the neck, and the blood will pour out of the mouth.
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Then the Deemster went over once more to the cottage at the Cross Vein, alone, and in the night.
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