Veins are a type of blood vessel that return deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart. These are different from your arteries, which deliver oxygenated blood from your heart to the rest ...

The great saphenous vein is a large venous blood vessel running near the inside surface of the leg from the ankle to the groin. It arises from the dorsal venous arch at the top (dorsum) of the foot ...

Recent years have seen an enormous amount of experimental and clinical research into role of the pulmonary veins (PVs) in atrial fibrillation (AF). Advanced imaging techniques have confirmed the ...

A large blood vessel of the thigh, the femoral vein is a major pathway in which blood from the lower limbs travels on its way back to the heart. It is sometimes called the superficial femoral vein (in ...

People have been studying the human body for hundreds of years and you might think we know all there is to know about human anatomy today. Researchers have identified a previously unknown feature of ...

The circulation of blood from the heart through arteries and back through veins may seem trivial and obvious now, but William Harvey’s discovery during the 17th century was remarkable because it was ...