vena cerebri

Questions about vena cerebri

What does vena cerebri mean?

vena cerebri means "any of several veins serving the cerebral hemispheres of the brain".

What is another word for vena cerebri?

Close synonyms include cerebral 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 cerebri a common word?

vena cerebri 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.