Superficial veins in the fins and flukes, the twin lobes of the tail, were seen as acting like the cooling system in a car.
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If there is sudden filling at this point, it indicates that the deep and communicating veins are competent but the superficial veins are incompetent.
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A tourniquet is then applied around the upper thigh to compress the superficial veins but not too tight as to occlude the deeper veins.
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In a deep vein thrombosis ( DVT ), or in a superficial vein thrombosis where the thrombus is floating, an emergency situation will be indicated.
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When the body is too hot the body shunts blood from the deep veins to the superficial veins, to facilitate heat transfer to the surroundings.
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"' Perforator veins "'are so called because they perforate the deep fascia of muscles, to connect the superficial veins to the deep veins where they drain.
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Surgical therapy with ligation of saphenofemoral junction or stripping of thrombosed superficial veins appears to be associated higher rates of venous thromboembolism compared with treatment with anitcoagulants.
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The latter consisted mainly of agricultural peasants who spent most of their time working outdoors and thus had tanned skin, through which superficial veins appear less prominently.
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Papillamitosis is associated, as has been mentioned before, with symptoms and / or clinical signs such as dilated superficial veins, varicose veins and changes in the skin.
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In 1993 Quayle developed an inflammation of a superficial vein in a leg, known as phlebitis, and he was advised to move his legs on airplane flights.
