vena mesenterica

1. 1.

   a tributary of the portal vein passing from the intestine between the two layers of mesentery

   Synonymsmesenteric vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena mesenterica

What does vena mesenterica mean?

vena mesenterica means "a tributary of the portal vein passing from the intestine between the two layers of mesentery".

What is another word for vena mesenterica?

Close synonyms include mesenteric 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 mesenterica a common word?

vena mesenterica 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.