common facial vein

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   vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein

   Broadervein

Questions about common facial vein

What does common facial vein mean?

common facial vein means "vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein".

Is common facial vein a common word?

common facial 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.