posterior cardinal vein

1. 1.

   a major drainage channel from the caudal part of the body

   Broadercardinal vein

Questions about posterior cardinal vein

What does posterior cardinal vein mean?

posterior cardinal vein means "a major drainage channel from the caudal part of the body".

Is posterior cardinal vein a common word?

posterior cardinal 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.