inferior pulmonary vein

1. 1.

   either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the inferior lobes of the lungs

   Synonymsvena pulmanalis inferior

   Broaderpulmonary vein

Questions about inferior pulmonary vein

What does inferior pulmonary vein mean?

inferior pulmonary vein means "either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the inferior lobes of the lungs".

What is another word for inferior pulmonary vein?

Close synonyms include vena pulmanalis inferior. 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 inferior pulmonary vein a common word?

inferior pulmonary 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.