popliteal vein

1. 1.

   a vein arising in the knee and ascending to become the femoral vein

   Synonymsvena poplitea

   Broadervein

Questions about popliteal vein

What does popliteal vein mean?

popliteal vein means "a vein arising in the knee and ascending to become the femoral vein".

What is another word for popliteal vein?

Close synonyms include vena poplitea. 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 popliteal vein a common word?

popliteal 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.