vena brachialis

1. 1.

   two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein

   Synonymsbrachial vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena brachialis

What does vena brachialis mean?

vena brachialis means "two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein".

What is another word for vena brachialis?

Close synonyms include brachial 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 brachialis a common word?

vena brachialis 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.