ileocolic vein

1. 1.

   a vein that drains the end of the ileum and the appendix and the cecum and the lower part of the ascending colon

   Synonymsvena ileocolica

   Broadervein

Questions about ileocolic vein

What does ileocolic vein mean?

ileocolic vein means "a vein that drains the end of the ileum and the appendix and the cecum and the lower part of the ascending colon".

What is another word for ileocolic vein?

Close synonyms include vena ileocolica. 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 ileocolic vein a common word?

ileocolic 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.