DIGITAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digital vein mean? 

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

1. one of the veins serving the fingers or toes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGITAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the veins serving the fingers or toes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

digital vein; vena digitalis

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

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

 Context examples 

The vessels carrying deoxygenated blood on the upper side of the foot that originate from the dorsal digital vein creating the dorsal venous arch.

(Dorsal Metatarsal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)