BRACHIAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brachial vein mean? 

• BRACHIAL VEIN (noun)
  The noun BRACHIAL VEIN has 1 sense:

1. two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRACHIAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two veins in either arm that accompany the brachial artery and empty into the axillary vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

brachial vein; vena brachialis

Hypernyms ("brachial vein" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

An axillary lymph node along the brachial vein.

(Brachial Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)