CARDINAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardinal vein mean? 

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

1. any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDINAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the major venous channels in primitive adult vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cardinal 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 "cardinal vein"):

anterior cardinal vein (a major drainage channel from the cephalic part of the body)

posterior cardinal vein (a major drainage channel from the caudal part of the body)

common cardinal vein (the major return channels to the heart; formed by anastomosis of the anterior and posterior cardinal veins)

 Context examples 

A vein that drains blood from the cranium into the common cardinal vein during embryonic development.

(Anterior Cardinal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein occurring during embryonic development that is formed from the union of the anterior and posterior cardinal veins.

(Common Cardinal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of three veins occurring during embryonic development including the anterior, common and posterior cardinal veins.

(Cardinal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein located in the tail of vertebrate animals that leads to the inferior vena cava in mammals and the posterior cardinal vein in the trunk of fish.

(Caudal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)