vena diploica

1. 1.

   one of the veins serving the spongy part of the cranial bones

   Synonymsdiploic vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena diploica

What does vena diploica mean?

vena diploica means "one of the veins serving the spongy part of the cranial bones".

What is another word for vena diploica?

Close synonyms include diploic 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 diploica a common word?

vena diploica 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.