anterior vertebral vein

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   a vein that accompanies the ascending cervical artery and opens into the vertebral vein

   Synonymsvena vertebralis anterior

   Broadervein

Questions about anterior vertebral vein

What does anterior vertebral vein mean?

anterior vertebral vein means "a vein that accompanies the ascending cervical artery and opens into the vertebral vein".

What is another word for anterior vertebral vein?

Close synonyms include vena vertebralis 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 vertebral vein a common word?

anterior vertebral 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.