circumflex vein

1. 1.

   any of several curved parallel veins accompanying arteries of the same name

   Synonymsvena circumflexa

   Broadervein

   Narrowercircumflex iliac veincircumflex femoral vein

Questions about circumflex vein

What does circumflex vein mean?

circumflex vein means "any of several curved parallel veins accompanying arteries of the same name".

What is another word for circumflex vein?

Close synonyms include vena circumflexa. 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 vein a common word?

circumflex 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.