great saphenous vein

1. 1.

   the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein

   Synonymslong saphenous vein

   Broadersaphenous vein

Questions about great saphenous vein

What does great saphenous vein mean?

great saphenous vein means "the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein".

What is another word for great saphenous vein?

Close synonyms include long saphenous vein. 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 great saphenous vein a common word?

great saphenous 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.