pharyngeal vein

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   veins from the pharyngeal plexus that empty into the internal jugular vein

   Synonymsvena pharyngeus

   Broadervein

Questions about pharyngeal vein

What does pharyngeal vein mean?

pharyngeal vein means "veins from the pharyngeal plexus that empty into the internal jugular vein".

What is another word for pharyngeal vein?

Close synonyms include vena pharyngeus. 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 pharyngeal vein a common word?

pharyngeal 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.