maxillary vein

1. 1.

   posterior continuation of the pterygoid plexus; joins the superficial temporal vein to form the retromandibular vein

   Synonymsvena maxillaris

   Broadervein

Questions about maxillary vein

What does maxillary vein mean?

maxillary vein means "posterior continuation of the pterygoid plexus; joins the superficial temporal vein to form the retromandibular vein".

What is another word for maxillary vein?

Close synonyms include vena maxillaris. 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 maxillary vein a common word?

maxillary 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.