costoaxillary vein

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   one of several veins connecting intercostal veins with the lateral thoracic vein or the thoracoepigastric vein

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Questions about costoaxillary vein

What does costoaxillary vein mean?

costoaxillary vein means "one of several veins connecting intercostal veins with the lateral thoracic vein or the thoracoepigastric vein".

Is costoaxillary vein a common word?

costoaxillary 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.