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INFERIOR OPHTHALMIC VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inferior ophthalmic vein mean? 

INFERIOR OPHTHALMIC VEIN (noun)
  The noun INFERIOR OPHTHALMIC VEIN has 1 sense:

1. a vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socketplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


INFERIOR OPHTHALMIC VEIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("inferior ophthalmic vein" is a kind of...):

ophthalmic vein; vena ophthalmica (either of two veins that serve the eye; empties into the cavernous sinus)


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