vena basalis

1. 1.

   a large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein

   Synonymsbasal vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena basalis

What does vena basalis mean?

vena basalis means "a large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein".

What is another word for vena basalis?

Close synonyms include basal vein. 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 vena basalis a common word?

vena basalis 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.