a graph indicating the pulsing of the blood within the vein
2. medicine
an X-ray image of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
Also called: venogram
phlebogram in American English
(ˈflebəˌɡræm)
noun Medicine
1.
venogram
2.
the tracing made by a phlebograph
Word origin
[1880–85; phlebo- + -gram1]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barnstorm, highball, jackpot, pari-mutuel, quotation mark-gram is a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “somethingwritten,” “drawing” (epigram; diagram). On this model, -gram is used in the formation of compound words (oscillogram)