DEEP MIDDLE CEREBRAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep middle cerebral vein mean? 

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

1. accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure; empties into the basal vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP MIDDLE CEREBRAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure; empties into the basal vein

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Nouns denoting body parts

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

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

 Context examples 

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)