venovenous

English

Etymology

veno- +‎ venous

Adjective

venovenous (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Describing any technique in which blood is taken from a vein, processed, then returned to a vein.
    • 2011, Pauline K. Park, “Assessment of Noncardiac Perioperative Risk”, in Michael W. Mulholland; Gerard M. Doherty, editors, Complications in Surgery, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 86:
      Continuous venovenous hemodialysis may be indicated to relieve volume overload in the hemodynamically unstable patient.
    • 2015 July 10, Nuno Rocha Pereira, António Sarmento, Lurdes Santos, “Simultaneous diagnosis of severe imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV: report of three cases”, in Malaria Journal‎, volume 14, DOI:10.1186/s12936-015-0780-6:
      He needed continuous venovenous haemodiafiltration during 4 days and then he was put on intermittent haemodialysis.
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