radial vein

1. 1.

   superficial veins ascending the radial side of the forearm; combines with the ulnar veins to form the brachial vein

   Synonymsvena radialis

   Broadervein

   Part offorearm

Questions about radial vein

What does radial vein mean?

radial vein means "superficial veins ascending the radial side of the forearm; combines with the ulnar veins to form the brachial vein".

What is another word for radial vein?

Close synonyms include vena radialis. 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 radial vein a common word?

radial 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.