anterior facial vein

1. 1.

   a continuation of the angular vein; unites with the retromandibular vein before emptying into the internal jugular vein

   Synonymsvena facialis anterior

   Broaderfacial vein

Questions about anterior facial vein

What does anterior facial vein mean?

anterior facial vein means "a continuation of the angular vein; unites with the retromandibular vein before emptying into the internal jugular vein".

What is another word for anterior facial vein?

Close synonyms include vena facialis anterior. 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 anterior facial vein a common word?

anterior facial 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.