vena circumflexa

1. 1.

   any of several curved parallel veins accompanying arteries of the same name

   Synonymscircumflex vein

   Broadervein

   Narrowercircumflex iliac veincircumflex femoral vein

Questions about vena circumflexa

What does vena circumflexa mean?

vena circumflexa means "any of several curved parallel veins accompanying arteries of the same name".

What is another word for vena circumflexa?

Close synonyms include circumflex 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 circumflexa a common word?

vena circumflexa 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.