STRIATE VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does striate vein mean? 

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

1. tributaries to the basal vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIATE VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tributaries to the basal vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

inferior thalamostriate vein; striate vein

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

thalamostriate vein (a vein serving the thalamus and corpus striatum)

 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)