internal iliac vein

1. 1.

   a vein that unites with the external iliac vein to form the common iliac vein

   Synonymshypogastric vein

   Broaderiliac vein

Questions about internal iliac vein

What does internal iliac vein mean?

internal iliac vein means "a vein that unites with the external iliac vein to form the common iliac vein".

What is another word for internal iliac vein?

Close synonyms include hypogastric vein. 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 internal iliac vein a common word?

internal iliac 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.