[f. as prec. + -λογία discussion: see -LOGY.] That part of anatomy which relates to the vessels in the human body.
1706. Phillips, Angiology,… a Discourse or Treatise of the Vessels of a Humane Body; as of the Veins, Arteries, Sinews, &c.
1737. Bracken, Farriery (1756), I. x. 92. Angiology, or the Anatomy of the Veins and Arteries.
1843. Wilkinson, trans. Swedenborg’s Anim. Kingd., I. xii. 372. To explain the nature of the spirit of the blood belongs to … psychology; to explain the nature of the body thereof, to angiology.
