stylomastoid vein

1. 1.

   a vein that drains the tympanic cavity and empties into the retromandibular vein

   Synonymsvena stylomastoidea

   Broadervein

Questions about stylomastoid vein

What does stylomastoid vein mean?

stylomastoid vein means "a vein that drains the tympanic cavity and empties into the retromandibular vein".

What is another word for stylomastoid vein?

Close synonyms include vena stylomastoidea. 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 stylomastoid vein a common word?

stylomastoid 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.