jugular vein

1. 1.

   veins in the neck that return blood from the head

   Synonymsvena jugularisjugular

   Broadervein

   Narroweranterior jugular veinexternal jugular veininternal jugular vein

   Part ofneck

Questions about jugular vein

What does jugular vein mean?

jugular vein means "veins in the neck that return blood from the head".

What is another word for jugular vein?

Close synonyms include vena jugularis, jugular. 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 jugular vein a common word?

jugular 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.