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venous angle (medicine)


venous angle


The junction of the internal jugular and subclavian veins, toward which converge the external and the anterior jugular and the vertebral veins, the thoracic duct in the left angle and the right lymphatic duct in the right angle.

Synonym: Pirogoff's angle.

In neuroradiology, the angle of union of the superior thalamostriate vein (vena terminalis) with the internal cerebral vein, usually closely behind the interventricular foramen of Monro.


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droop


1. To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc, from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." "I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish." (Swift)

2. To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped. "I'll animate the soldier's drooping courage." (Addison)

3. To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline. "Then day drooped."

Origin: Icel. Drpa; akin to E. Drop. See Drop.

Source: Websters Dictionary