auricular vein

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   one of two veins serving the ear region

   Synonymsvena auricularis

   Broadervein

Questions about auricular vein

What does auricular vein mean?

auricular vein means "one of two veins serving the ear region".

What is another word for auricular vein?

Close synonyms include vena auricularis. 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 auricular vein a common word?

auricular 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.