COMMON FACIAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common facial vein mean? 

• COMMON FACIAL VEIN (noun)
  The noun COMMON FACIAL VEIN has 1 sense:

1. vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON FACIAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vein formed by union of facial vein and the retromandibular vein and emptying into the jugular vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("common facial vein" is a kind of...):

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