circumflex iliac vein

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   accompanies the artery of the same name

   Synonymsvena circumflexa ilium

   Broadercircumflex vein

Questions about circumflex iliac vein

What does circumflex iliac vein mean?

circumflex iliac vein means "accompanies the artery of the same name".

What is another word for circumflex iliac vein?

Close synonyms include vena circumflexa ilium. 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 iliac vein a common word?

circumflex iliac 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.