ciliary veins

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   small veins coming from the ciliary body

   Synonymsvenae ciliares

   Broadervein

Questions about ciliary veins

What does ciliary veins mean?

ciliary veins means "small veins coming from the ciliary body".

What is another word for ciliary veins?

Close synonyms include venae ciliares. 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 ciliary veins a common word?

ciliary veins 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.