vena colica

1. 1.

   vein serving the large intestine

   Synonymscolic vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena colica

What does vena colica mean?

vena colica means "vein serving the large intestine".

What is another word for vena colica?

Close synonyms include colic 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 colica a common word?

vena colica 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.