scleral veins

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   tributaries of the anterior ciliary veins that drain the sclera of the eye

   Synonymsvenae sclerales

   Broadervein

Questions about scleral veins

What does scleral veins mean?

scleral veins means "tributaries of the anterior ciliary veins that drain the sclera of the eye".

What is another word for scleral veins?

Close synonyms include venae sclerales. 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 scleral veins a common word?

scleral veins 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.