PYLORIC VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pyloric vein mean? 

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

1. receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYLORIC VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

pyloric vein; right gastric vein; vena gastrica-dextra

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

gastric vein; vena gastrica (one of several veins draining the stomach walls)