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unusual facts about veins



Ablation of atrial fibrillation

Only in the 1990s the pioneering work of Michel Haïssaguerre's group focused on the role of the pulmonary veins as the trigger of Atrial Fibrillation.

Aglais ladakensis

Differs from Aglais kaschmirensis with the forewing termen convex and not falcate and not produced between veins 5 and 6.

Aphididae

The forewings of Aphididae alates are dotted with 4 to 6 veins below the darkened spiracles.

Artisanal mining

350 km to the west of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand reef (the ridge that contains the gold), the mines around Barberton contain visible nugget gold in quartz veins, in addition to fine particles, that are embedded in metamorphosed late Archaean age rocks dating to 3.2-3.4 billion years ago.

Azimi Daim

In 2006, together with Hashim Suboh and Hasnoor Hussein, he was officially reprimanded by UMNO for stating that "when tension rises, the blood of Malay warriors will run in our veins", which the opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) had alleged was seditious.

Climax mine

The prospector Charles Senter discovered and claimed the outcropping of molybdenite (molybdenum sulfide) veins in 1879, during the Leadville, Colorado, Silver Boom, but he had no idea what the mineral he found was.

Colias nebulosa

Colias nebulosa is much darker than Colias sifanica ; the forewing without middle spot, but with light spot at the distal margin; the hindwing almost uniformly black, with large,conspicuous, light yellow middle spot, and light ray-like spots on the veins.

Comstock–Needham system

The Comstock–Needham system is a naming system for insect wing veins, devised by John Comstock and George Needham in 1898.

Croesor Quarry

The Ffestiniog region contains five major slate veins, which are on top of a thick layer of feldspathic porphyry, called the "Glanypwll Trap".

Cyclamen purpurascens

Subtypes include the Lake Bled form (silver with a netted pattern of veins near the margin), selected from plants near Lake Bled in the Julian Alps of Slovenia, and the Limone or Lake Garda form (silver with a very thin green border and gray arrowhead pattern in the center), selected from plants near Limone sul Garda near Lake Garda in Italy.

David Vanderpool

Located in Brentwood, TN, Lave MD was a social entrepreneur based business that became one of the first clinics in the country to provide the EndoVenous Laser Treatment for varicose veins.

Dragon, Utah

The reason for the town's existence was the veins of natural asphalt called Gilsonite, found nowhere else in the world, that run southeast to northwest through this region.

Eduardo Galeano

Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America) is arguably Galeano's best-known work.

Elaterite

Strawberry, Utah, USA: Flows from the ground in a soft elastic form, also exists in the brittle form from various veins in the canyon walls.

Emissary

Emissary veins, valveless veins which normally drain the intracranial venous sinuses to veins on the outside of the skull

François Sagat

Dildos made from an exact molding of Sagat's genitalia with realistic veins, glans and foreskin were marketed.

Gina's Laughing Gear

Astronuts - Comedy slapstick running in similar veins to Basil Brush about a family in 5050, who, after their father's stupidity in moving planet, find themselves lost in space.

Golden ratio

Adolf Zeising, whose main interests were mathematics and philosophy, found the golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves.

Henri Mondor

He is known for his studies of rectal cancer and urgent diagnosis, and Mondor's disease, which is a thrombophlebitis of the superficial veins of the breast and anterior chest wall, is named in his honour.

Honduran white bat

The Honduran white bat cuts the side veins extending out from the midrib of the large leave of the Heliconia plant causing them to fold down to form a 'tent'.

Ianbruceite

Driggith and Potts Gill Mines worked low temperature lead-zinc-copper veins on the eastern and northern slopes of High Pike.

Management of multiple sclerosis

In 2008, vascular surgeon Paolo Zamboni suggested that MS involves a vascular process he referred to as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), in which veins from the brain are constricted.

Maytag Blue cheese

Penicillium is then added to the finished product, which produces its characteristic green veins.

Meganeura

In 1885, French paleontologist Charles Brongniart described and named the fossil "Meganeura" (large-nerved), which refers to the network of veins on the insect's wings.

Mesokristensenia

Mesokristensenia differs from all extant Lepidoptera, but one genus, Agathiphaga (Agathiphagidae), in retaining four median veins in the forewing.

Mount Gulaga

These Pyrite-rich veins (which range in size from 15 to 45 cm) were mined by the Mount Dromedary Gold Mining Company.

Neviusia dunthornei

The overall morphology and structure of the N. dunthornei leaves compare to the living species known as the Shasta snow-wreath (N. cliftonii), being broadly ovate, with secondary veins subopposite and a similar overall vein patterning.

New Castle Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Named for the famous coal city Newcastle upon Tyne in England, the area contains large veins of anthracite coal and has a long history of coal mining; strip mining continues there to the present day.

Papilio erithonioides

On the disk, the space between the stramineous band and the row of submarginal lunules is brightly irrorated with stramineous scales, in which, between the veins, are spaces less densely irrorated with the same colour, giving the appearance of indistinct black spots, with clusters of blue scales more orless distinct below each, resembling somewhat the mottled appearance of the posterior wings of P. ophidicephalus, Oberth.

Peripheral vascular disease

Generally, the saphenous vein is used, although artificial (Gore-Tex) material is often used for large tracts when the veins are of lesser quality.

Poeville, Nevada

John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain.

Populus nigra

Leaf veins and shoots finely downy; bark grey-brown, thick and furrowed, often with heavy burrs, trunk usually heavily leaning.

Primitive Origins

Primitive Origins, an EP by Prong, features songs like "In My Veins" which was later re-recorded during a session with John Peel (BBC).

Rippled glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany made use of such textured glass to represent, for example, water or leaf veins.

Spherocobaltite

Spherocobaltite was first described in 1877 for an occurrence within cobalt and nickel veins in the St. Daniel Mine of the Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

The Jimmy Show

The Jimmy Show is a 2001 drama written and directed by Frank Whaley, based on the Off-Broadway play Veins and Thumbtacks by Jonathan Marc Sherman.

The Paper Cranes

Shortly after the recording of Halcyon Days, "I'll Love You Until My Veins Explode" and "Milkrun" from the Veins Ep were released in the UK as the double-A side single, "I'll Love You Until My Veins Explode/Milkrun" on the Longest Mile label, owned in part by Ross Millard of The Futureheads.

In the fall of 2008, "Rabbit in a Snare" from the band's "Veins" Ep was featured in a Canadian television commercial for the Nissan Rogue and in 2009 The Paper Cranes were voted Victoria's Favorite Band at the 2009 Monday Magazine M Awards.

Thoracoepigastric vein

The shape of these veins and their arrangement around the umbilicus is said to resemble the snake-like hair of the mythological Greek Monster, Medusa.

Caput Medusa is a clinical sign that is recognized by the physician by the characteristic appearance of distended veins emanating from the umbilicus of the patient.


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