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venography

ve·no·graph·y/vɪˈnɑː.ɡrəf.i/noun

venography is a noun meaning “A diagnostic procedure in which an X-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y and has 4 syllables (ve·no·graph·y), and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of venography is venographies.

What does venography mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A diagnostic procedure in which an X-ray of the veins, a venogram, is taken after a special dye is injected into the bone marrow or veins.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce venography?

  • UK /vɪˈnɒ.ɡrəf.i/
  • US /vɪˈnɑː.ɡrəf.i/
  • US /veɪˈnɑː.ɡrəf.i/

Venography has 4 syllables, split ve·no·graph·y in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of venography

  • venographies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is venography?

Venography appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Venography in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense diagnostic procedure:

LanguageWords
Spanishvenografía

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does venography come from?

From veno- + -graphy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).