gastric vein

1. 1.

   one of several veins draining the stomach walls

   Synonymsvena gastrica

   Broadervein

   Narrowerleft gastric veinpyloric vein

   Part ofstomach

Questions about gastric vein

What does gastric vein mean?

gastric vein means "one of several veins draining the stomach walls".

What is another word for gastric vein?

Close synonyms include vena gastrica. 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 gastric vein a common word?

gastric 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.