وَدَجٌ
Root: ودج
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وَدَجٌ
, also written with kesreh, [app. وِدْجٌ, but perhaps وَدِجٌ,] and وِدَاجٌ, [A name given to each of the external jugular veins;] a certain vein in the neck; one of two veins, which are called the
وَدَجَانِ: these are two veins extending from the head to the lungs; and the pl. is أَوْدَاجٌ: or two great veins on the right and left of the pit between the clavicles: they are by the side of the
وَرِيدَانِ, [here app. meaning the two carotid arteries,] and are of the number of the veins in which the blood [merely] runs, whereas the وريدان are for pulsation and for [the diffusion of] the soul, النفس [i. e النَّفْس, not النَّفَس; for, accord. to the Arabs, the animal soul (الرُّوحُ الحَيْوَانِىُّ, as is said in the KT,) diffuses itself throughout the body, from the heart, by means of the pulsing veins, or arteries]: accord. to some, the ودج and وريد are the same; [meaning, that each of these names is applied to the external jugular vein:] or the اوداج are the veins which surround the windpipe: or the ودج is the vein called the
أَخْدَع, [elsewhere said to be a branch from the وريد, in the place where one is cupped,] which the slaughterer [of an animal] cuts through, thereby putting an end to life.
2 وَدَجَانِ
def.2 وَدَجٌ
2 وَدَجَانِ
def.2 وَدَجٌ
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