BASAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basal vein mean? 

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

1. a large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

basal vein; vena basalis

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

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

 Context examples 

The blood vessel that receives deoxygenated blood from the insula and gyri and drains into the basal vein of Rosenthal deep in the lateral sulcus.

(Deep Middle Cerebral Vein, NCI Thesaurus)