jugular vein

Questions about jugular vein

What is another word for jugular vein?

It depends which jugular vein you mean. In the sense “veins in the neck that return blood from the head”, the synonyms are vena jugularis, jugular. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of jugular vein?

WordNet records no antonym for jugular vein. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for jugular vein come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of jugular vein

• Full entry for jugular veinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for jugular veinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.