hemizygos vein

1. 1.

   a continuation of the left ascending lumbar vein; crosses the midline at the 8th vertebra and empties into the azygos vein

   Synonymshemizygous veinvena hemizygos

   Broadervein

Questions about hemizygos vein

What does hemizygos vein mean?

hemizygos vein means "a continuation of the left ascending lumbar vein; crosses the midline at the 8th vertebra and empties into the azygos vein".

What is another word for hemizygos vein?

Close synonyms include hemizygous vein, vena hemizygos. 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 hemizygos vein a common word?

hemizygos 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.