MIDDLE CEREBRAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle cerebral vein mean? 

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

1. either of two cerebral veins

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE CEREBRAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two cerebral veins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

middle cerebral vein; vena cerebri media

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

cerebral vein; vena cerebri (any of several veins serving the cerebral hemispheres of the brain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "middle cerebral vein"):

deep middle cerebral vein (accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure; empties into the basal vein)

superficial middle cerebral vein (a large vein along the line of the Sylvian fissure to the cavernous sinus)

 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)