prepyloric vein

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   a tributary of the right gastric vein

   Synonymsvena pylorica

   Broadervein

Questions about prepyloric vein

What does prepyloric vein mean?

prepyloric vein means "a tributary of the right gastric vein".

What is another word for prepyloric vein?

Close synonyms include vena pylorica. 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 prepyloric vein a common word?

prepyloric 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.