saphenous vein

What does saphenous vein mean?

saphenous vein means "either of two chief superficial veins of the leg that drain blood from the foot".

What is another word for saphenous vein?

Close synonyms include vena saphena. 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 saphenous vein a common word?

saphenous 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for saphenous vein come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.