ovarian vein

1. 1.

   one of the veins that drain the ovaries; the right opens into the inferior vena cava; the left opens into the left renal vein

   Synonymsvena ovarica

   Broadervein

Questions about ovarian vein

What does ovarian vein mean?

ovarian vein means "one of the veins that drain the ovaries; the right opens into the inferior vena cava; the left opens into the left renal vein".

What is another word for ovarian vein?

Close synonyms include vena ovarica. 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 ovarian vein a common word?

ovarian 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.