circumflex femoral vein

1. 1.

   either of two veins that accompany arteries of the same name serving the hip and thigh

   Synonymsvena circumflexus femoris

   Broadercircumflex vein

Questions about circumflex femoral vein

What does circumflex femoral vein mean?

circumflex femoral vein means "either of two veins that accompany arteries of the same name serving the hip and thigh".

What is another word for circumflex femoral vein?

Close synonyms include vena circumflexus femoris. 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 circumflex femoral vein a common word?

circumflex femoral 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.