inferior ophthalmic vein

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   a vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socket

   Broaderophthalmic vein

Questions about inferior ophthalmic vein

What does inferior ophthalmic vein mean?

inferior ophthalmic vein means "a vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socket".

Is inferior ophthalmic vein a common word?

inferior ophthalmic 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.