thoracoepigastric vein

1. 1.

   a vein arising from the region of the superficial epigastric vein and opening into the axillary vein or thoracic vein

   Synonymsvena thoracoepigastrica

   Broadervein

Questions about thoracoepigastric vein

What does thoracoepigastric vein mean?

thoracoepigastric vein means "a vein arising from the region of the superficial epigastric vein and opening into the axillary vein or thoracic vein".

What is another word for thoracoepigastric vein?

Close synonyms include vena thoracoepigastrica. 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 thoracoepigastric vein a common word?

thoracoepigastric 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.