Sentence:  The pulmonary vein , however , without the limiting supportive tissue septa as in type 1 , , follows a more direct path to the hilum and does not maintain this close <WSD>relationship</WSD> ( figs. 8 , 22 ) . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)