angular vein

1. 1.

   a short vein formed by the supraorbital vein and the supratrochlear vein and continuing as the facial vein

   Synonymsvena angularis

   Broadervein

Questions about angular vein

What does angular vein mean?

angular vein means "a short vein formed by the supraorbital vein and the supratrochlear vein and continuing as the facial vein".

What is another word for angular vein?

Close synonyms include vena angularis. 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 angular vein a common word?

angular 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.