diploic vein

1. 1.

   one of the veins serving the spongy part of the cranial bones

   Synonymsvena diploica

   Broadervein

Questions about diploic vein

What does diploic vein mean?

diploic vein means "one of the veins serving the spongy part of the cranial bones".

What is another word for diploic vein?

Close synonyms include vena diploica. 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 diploic vein a common word?

diploic 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.