colic vein

1. 1.

   vein serving the large intestine

   Synonymsvena colica

   Broadervein

Questions about colic vein

What does colic vein mean?

colic vein means "vein serving the large intestine".

What is another word for colic vein?

Close synonyms include vena colica. 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 colic vein a common word?

colic 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.