short saphenous vein

1. 1.

   a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee

   Broadersaphenous vein

Questions about short saphenous vein

What does short saphenous vein mean?

short saphenous vein means "a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee".

Is short saphenous vein a common word?

short 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.