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ACCESSORY CEPHALIC VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accessory cephalic vein mean? 

ACCESSORY CEPHALIC VEIN (noun)
  The noun ACCESSORY CEPHALIC VEIN has 1 sense:

1. a vein that passes along the radial edge of the forearm and joins the cephalic vein near the elbowplay

  Familiarity information: ACCESSORY CEPHALIC VEIN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ACCESSORY CEPHALIC VEIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A vein that passes along the radial edge of the forearm and joins the cephalic vein near the elbow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

accessory cephalic vein; vena cephalica accessoria

Hypernyms ("accessory cephalic vein" is a kind of...):

vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Holonyms ("accessory cephalic vein" is a part of...):

forearm (the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist)


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