cardinal vein

1. 1.

   any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates

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   Narroweranterior cardinal veinposterior cardinal veincommon cardinal vein

Questions about cardinal vein

What does cardinal vein mean?

cardinal vein means "any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates".

Is cardinal vein a common word?

cardinal 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.