وَدَجٌ
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, (S, K,) also written with kesreh, [apparently وِدْجٌ, but perhaps وَدِجٌ,] (Msb,) and وِدَاجٌ, (S, K,) [A name given to each of the external jugular veins;] a certain vein in the neck; (S, K;) one of two veins, which are called the
وَدَجَانِ: (T, S, &c.:) these are two veins extending from the head to the lungs; and the plural is أَوْدَاجٌ: (M:) or two great veins on the right and left of the pit between the clavicles: (Msb, TA:) they are by the side of the
وَرِيدَانِ, [here apparently 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, according 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]: (T, Msb, TA:) according to some, the ودج and وريد are the same; [meaning, that each of these names is applied to the external jugular vein:] (Msb:) or the اوداج are the veins which surround the windpipe: (TA:) 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. (Msb.)
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