accessory cephalic vein

1. 1.

   a vein that passes along the radial edge of the forearm and joins the cephalic vein near the elbow

   Synonymsvena cephalica accessoria

   Broadervein

   Part offorearm

Questions about accessory cephalic vein

What does accessory cephalic vein mean?

accessory cephalic vein means "a vein that passes along the radial edge of the forearm and joins the cephalic vein near the elbow".

What is another word for accessory cephalic vein?

Close synonyms include vena cephalica accessoria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accessory cephalic vein a common word?

accessory cephalic vein is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.