basal vein

1. 1.

   a large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein

   Synonymsvena basalis

   Broadervein

Questions about basal vein

What does basal vein mean?

basal vein means "a large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein".

What is another word for basal vein?

Close synonyms include vena basalis. 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 basal vein a common word?

basal 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.