common iliac vein

1. 1.

   formed by the internal and external iliac veins; unites with its fellow from the opposite side of the body to form the inferior vena cava

   Broaderiliac vein

Questions about common iliac vein

What does common iliac vein mean?

common iliac vein means "formed by the internal and external iliac veins; unites with its fellow from the opposite side of the body to form the inferior vena cava".

Is common iliac vein a common word?

common 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.