lingual vein

1. 1.

   a vein that receives blood from the tongue and the floor of the mouth and empties into the internal jugular or the facial vein

   Synonymsvena lingualis

   Broadervein

   Part ofmouth

Questions about lingual vein

What does lingual vein mean?

lingual vein means "a vein that receives blood from the tongue and the floor of the mouth and empties into the internal jugular or the facial vein".

What is another word for lingual vein?

Close synonyms include vena lingualis. 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 lingual vein a common word?

lingual 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.