TEMPORAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temporal vein mean? 

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

1. any of several veins draining the temporal region

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPORAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several veins draining the temporal region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

temporal vein; vena temporalis

Hypernyms ("temporal vein" 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 "temporal vein"):

deep temporal vein (temporal veins that empty into the pterygoid plexus)

middle temporal vein (arises near the eye; joins the superficial temporal veins to form the retromandibular vein)

superficial temporal vein (join the middle temporal vein to empty into the retromandibular vein)