middle thyroid vein

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   a vein on each side that drains the lateral part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein

   Broaderthyroid vein

Questions about middle thyroid vein

What does middle thyroid vein mean?

middle thyroid vein means "a vein on each side that drains the lateral part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein".

Is middle thyroid vein a common word?

middle thyroid 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.