vena basilica

1. 1.

   a vein that drains the back of the hand and forearm and empties into the axillary vein

   Synonymsbasilic vein

   Broadervein

   Part offorearm

Questions about vena basilica

What does vena basilica mean?

vena basilica means "a vein that drains the back of the hand and forearm and empties into the axillary vein".

What is another word for vena basilica?

Close synonyms include basilic 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 basilica a common word?

vena basilica 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.