superior thyroid vein

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   a vein on each side that drains the upper part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein

   Broaderthyroid vein

Questions about superior thyroid vein

What does superior thyroid vein mean?

superior thyroid vein means "a vein on each side that drains the upper part of the thyroid and empties into the internal jugular vein".

Is superior thyroid vein a common word?

superior thyroid 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.