lumbar vein

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   veins that drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses

   Synonymsvena lumbalis

   Broadervein

Questions about lumbar vein

What does lumbar vein mean?

lumbar vein means "veins that drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses".

What is another word for lumbar vein?

Close synonyms include vena lumbalis. 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 lumbar vein a common word?

lumbar 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.