cystic vein

1. 1.

   vein that drains the gallbladder

   Synonymsvena cystica

   Broadervein

Questions about cystic vein

What does cystic vein mean?

cystic vein means "vein that drains the gallbladder".

What is another word for cystic vein?

Close synonyms include vena cystica. 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 cystic vein a common word?

cystic 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.