CEPHALIC VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cephalic vein mean? 

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

1. a large vein of the arm that empties into the axillary vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEPHALIC VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large vein of the arm that empties into the axillary vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cephalic vein; vena cephalica

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

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

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

arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)

 Context examples 

A vein originating in the thumb that ascends the forearm and branches into the median basilic and median cephalic veins at the elbow.

(Median Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein between the biceps and supinator longus muscle in the forearm that unites with the radial vein to form the cephalic vein.

(Median Cephalic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)