CENTRAL VEINS OF LIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does central veins of liver mean? 

• CENTRAL VEINS OF LIVER (noun)
  The noun CENTRAL VEINS OF LIVER has 1 sense:

1. terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids

  Familiarity information: CENTRAL VEINS OF LIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRAL VEINS OF LIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids

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Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

central veins of liver; venae centrales hepatis

Hypernyms ("central veins of liver" is a kind of...):

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