appendicular vein

1. 1.

   a vein that accompanies the appendicular artery and empties into the ileocolic vein

   Synonymsvena appendicularis

   Broadervein

Questions about appendicular vein

What does appendicular vein mean?

appendicular vein means "a vein that accompanies the appendicular artery and empties into the ileocolic vein".

What is another word for appendicular vein?

Close synonyms include vena appendicularis. 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 appendicular vein a common word?

appendicular 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.