vena poplitea

1. 1.

   a vein arising in the knee and ascending to become the femoral vein

   Synonymspopliteal vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena poplitea

What does vena poplitea mean?

vena poplitea means "a vein arising in the knee and ascending to become the femoral vein".

What is another word for vena poplitea?

Close synonyms include popliteal 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 poplitea a common word?

vena poplitea 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.