vena iliaca

1. 1.

   one of three veins draining the pelvic area

   Synonymsiliac vein

   Broadervein

   Narrowerhypogastric veinexternal iliac veincommon iliac vein

Questions about vena iliaca

What does vena iliaca mean?

vena iliaca means "one of three veins draining the pelvic area".

What is another word for vena iliaca?

Close synonyms include iliac 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 iliaca a common word?

vena iliaca 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.