inferior thyroid vein

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   any of several veins on each side that drain the thyroid gland and empty into the innominate vein

   Broaderthyroid vein

Questions about inferior thyroid vein

What does inferior thyroid vein mean?

inferior thyroid vein means "any of several veins on each side that drain the thyroid gland and empty into the innominate vein".

Is inferior thyroid vein a common word?

inferior thyroid 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.