THALAMOSTRIATE VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thalamostriate vein mean? 

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

1. a vein serving the thalamus and corpus striatum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THALAMOSTRIATE VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vein serving the thalamus and corpus striatum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("thalamostriate 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 "thalamostriate vein"):

superior thalamostriate vein (a long vein that helps to form the internal cerebral vein)

inferior thalamostriate vein; striate vein (tributaries to the basal vein)