EPIGASTRIC VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epigastric vein mean? 

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

1. veins serving the anterior walls of the abdomen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIGASTRIC VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Veins serving the anterior walls of the abdomen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("epigastric 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 "epigastric vein"):

inferior epigastric vein; vena epigastrica inferior (empties into the external iliac vein)

superficial epigastric vein; vena epigastrica superficialis (empties into the great saphenous vein)

superior epigastric veins; venae epigastricae superiores (veins that accompany the superior epigastric artery)

 Context examples 

Either of two veins including the inferior and superior epigastric veins.

(Epigastric Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

The blood vessel carrying deoxygenated blood that arises from the superior epigastric vein and empties into the external iliac vein.

(Inferior Epigastric Vein, NCI Thesaurus)