pancreatic vein

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   veins draining the pancreas and emptying into the superior mesenteric and splenic veins

   Synonymsvenae pancreatica

   Broadervein

Questions about pancreatic vein

What does pancreatic vein mean?

pancreatic vein means "veins draining the pancreas and emptying into the superior mesenteric and splenic veins".

What is another word for pancreatic vein?

Close synonyms include venae pancreatica. 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 pancreatic vein a common word?

pancreatic 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.