brachial vein

1. 1.

   two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein

   Synonymsvena brachialis

   Broadervein

Questions about brachial vein

What does brachial vein mean?

brachial vein means "two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein".

What is another word for brachial vein?

Close synonyms include vena brachialis. 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 brachial vein a common word?

brachial 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.