POSTERIOR CARDINAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does posterior cardinal vein mean? 

• POSTERIOR CARDINAL VEIN (noun)
  The noun POSTERIOR CARDINAL VEIN has 1 sense:

1. a major drainage channel from the caudal part of the body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTERIOR CARDINAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major drainage channel from the caudal part of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("posterior cardinal vein" is a kind of...):

cardinal vein (any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates)

 Context examples 

A vein located in the tail of vertebrate animals that leads to the inferior vena cava in mammals and the posterior cardinal vein in the trunk of fish.

(Caudal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)