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VENA FACIALIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does vena facialis mean?

• VENA FACIALIS (noun)
The noun VENA FACIALIS has 1 sense:

1. any of several veins draining the face

Familiarity information: VENA FACIALIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• VENA FACIALIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several veins draining the face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

facial vein; vena facialis

Hypernyms ("vena facialis" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vena facialis"):

anterior facial vein; vena facialis anterior (a continuation of the angular vein; unites with the retromandibular vein before emptying into the internal jugular vein)

posterior facial vein; retromandibular vein; vena retromandibularis (posterior branch of the facial vein; formed by temporal veins in front of the ear)

Holonyms ("vena facialis" is a part of...):

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

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