FEMORAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does femoral vein mean? 

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

1. a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMORAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

femoral vein; vena femoralis

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

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

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

thigh (the part of the leg between the hip and the knee)

 Context examples 

A circumflex femoral vein that accompanies the medial circumflex femoral artery.

(Medial Circumflex Femoral Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein in the lower torso accompanying the external iliac artery that connects the femoral vein with the common iliac vein.

(External Iliac Vein, NCI Thesaurus)