CEREBRAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebral vein mean? 

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

1. any of several veins serving the cerebral hemispheres of the brain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBRAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several veins serving the cerebral hemispheres of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cerebral vein; vena cerebri

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cerebral vein"):

anterior cerebral vein; vena cerebri anterior (accompanies the anterior cerebral artery and empties into the basal vein)

great cerebral vein; vena cerebri magna (a cerebral vein formed by the two internal cerebral veins and continuing into the sinus rectus)

inferior cerebral vein; venae cerebrum inferior (veins that drain the undersurface of the cerebral hemispheres and empty into the cavernous and transverse sinuses)

internal cerebral vein; vena cerebrum internus (two paired veins passing caudally near the midline and uniting to form the great cerebral vein)

middle cerebral vein; vena cerebri media (either of two cerebral veins)

superior cerebral vein; vena cerebrum superior (a cerebral vein that drains the dorsal convexity of the cerebral hemisphere and empties into the cavernous sinus)

 Context examples 

The sinus receives blood from the great cerebral vein and joins the superior sagittal sinus posteriorly.

(Inferior Sagittal Sinus, NCI Thesaurus)

A pair of parallel blood vessels deep within both cerebral hemispheres that are formed by the union of the choroid and terminal veins and drain into the great cerebral vein.

(Internal Cerebral Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

An expansion of the subarachnoid space extending forward between the corpus callosum and the thalamus; it encloses the internal cerebral veins.

(Ambient Cistern, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel formed by the union of the two internal cerebral veins that drains the cerebrum and joins with the inferior sagittal sinus to form the straight sinus.

(Great Cerebral Vein of Galen, NCI Thesaurus)

A balloon type pouch or bulge in the wall of a cerebral vein.

(Cerebral Venous Aneurysm, NCI Thesaurus)

The sinus receives blood from the cerebral veins and drains posteriorly into the lateral sinuses of the brain, which in turn drain into the internal jugular veins.

(Murine Superior Sagittal Sinus, NCI Thesaurus)

A large blood vessel formed by the anterior and deep middle cerebral veins and small branches from the insula and cerebral peduncles which receives tributaries from the temporal horn and the medial temporal lobe and is joined by the inferior striate veins.

(Basal Cerebral Vein of Rosenthal, NCI Thesaurus)