LUMBAR VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumbar vein mean? 

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

1. veins that drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUMBAR VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Veins that drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

lumbar vein; vena lumbalis

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

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

 Context examples 

A blood vessel running parallel to the iliolumbar artery connected to the deep circumflex iliac and lumbar veins that drains into the internal iliac vein.

(Iliolumbar Vein, NCI Thesaurus)