external iliac vein

1. 1.

   a continuation of the femoral vein; unites with the internal iliac vein to form the common iliac vein

   Broaderiliac vein

Questions about external iliac vein

What does external iliac vein mean?

external iliac vein means "a continuation of the femoral vein; unites with the internal iliac vein to form the common iliac vein".

Is external iliac vein a common word?

external 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.