cephalic vein

1. 1.

   a large vein of the arm that empties into the axillary vein

   Synonymsvena cephalica

   Broadervein

   Part ofarm

Questions about cephalic vein

What does cephalic vein mean?

cephalic vein means "a large vein of the arm that empties into the axillary vein".

What is another word for cephalic vein?

Close synonyms include vena cephalica. 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 cephalic vein a common word?

cephalic 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.