emissary vein

1. 1.

   one of several connecting veins in the scalp and head that drain blood from sinuses in the dura mater to veins outside the skull

   Synonymsvena emissaria

   Broadervein

Questions about emissary vein

What does emissary vein mean?

emissary vein means "one of several connecting veins in the scalp and head that drain blood from sinuses in the dura mater to veins outside the skull".

What is another word for emissary vein?

Close synonyms include vena emissaria. 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 emissary vein a common word?

emissary 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.