vena occipitalis

1. 1.

   a vein that drains the occipital region

   Synonymsoccipital vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena occipitalis

What does vena occipitalis mean?

vena occipitalis means "a vein that drains the occipital region".

What is another word for vena occipitalis?

Close synonyms include occipital 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 occipitalis a common word?

vena occipitalis 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.