†(a) a small branching vein or branch of a vein (obsolete rare); (b) a superficial vein near the eye, esp. one used for phlebotomy in a domestic or…

A small or young shoot of a plant; a sprout, sprig, twig; also, a small branch of a nerve, blood vessel, etc.

transferred. A small branch, as of a vein. Obsolete.

Anatomy. A branch, esp. of a nerve or blood vessel. Obsolete.

transferred. Anatomy. A small ramification of a blood vessel or nerve.

Anatomy. Any of the smallest branches of a vein, artery, nerve, or duct.

Anatomy. A small branch of a blood vessel, nerve, etc.; a radicle (radicle, n. 3); spec. any of the smaller fascicles of fibres into which the roots…

Anatomy. = radicle, n. 3.