gluteal vein

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   veins draining the gluteal muscles on either side of the body

   Synonymsvena gluteus

   Broadervein

Questions about gluteal vein

What does gluteal vein mean?

gluteal vein means "veins draining the gluteal muscles on either side of the body".

What is another word for gluteal vein?

Close synonyms include vena gluteus. 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 gluteal vein a common word?

gluteal 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.