femoral vein

1. 1.

   a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein

   Synonymsvena femoralis

   Broadervein

   Part ofthigh

Questions about femoral vein

What does femoral vein mean?

femoral vein means "a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein".

What is another word for femoral vein?

Close synonyms include vena femoralis. 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 femoral vein a common word?

femoral 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.