vena facialis

1. 1.

   any of several veins draining the face

   Synonymsfacial vein

   Broadervein

   Narroweranterior facial veinretromandibular vein

   Part offace

Questions about vena facialis

What does vena facialis mean?

vena facialis means "any of several veins draining the face".

What is another word for vena facialis?

Close synonyms include facial 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 facialis a common word?

vena facialis 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.