vena stylomastoidea

1. 1.

   a vein that drains the tympanic cavity and empties into the retromandibular vein

   Synonymsstylomastoid vein

   Broadervein

Questions about vena stylomastoidea

What does vena stylomastoidea mean?

vena stylomastoidea means "a vein that drains the tympanic cavity and empties into the retromandibular vein".

What is another word for vena stylomastoidea?

Close synonyms include stylomastoid 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 stylomastoidea a common word?

vena stylomastoidea 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.