superior ophthalmic vein

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   a vein that begins at the inner angle of the eye socket and passes through the superior orbital fissure to empty into the cavernous sinus

   Broaderophthalmic vein

Questions about superior ophthalmic vein

What does superior ophthalmic vein mean?

superior ophthalmic vein means "a vein that begins at the inner angle of the eye socket and passes through the superior orbital fissure to empty into the cavernous sinus".

Is superior ophthalmic vein a common word?

superior ophthalmic 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.