Definition of Anastomotic vein

1. Noun. Either of two communicating veins serving the brain.

Exact synonyms: Vena Anastomotica
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anastomotic Vein

anastole
anastomose
anastomosed
anastomosed graft
anastomoses
anastomosing
anastomosing fibres
anastomosing vessel
anastomosis
anastomosis arteriovenosa
anastomotic
anastomotic branch
anastomotic branch of middle meningeal artery to lacrimal artery
anastomotic stricture
anastomotic ulcer
anastomotic vein (current term)
anastomotic veins
anastral
anastrophe
anastrophes
anastrophic
anastrozole
anastylosis
anasyrmata
anatase
anatases
anatectic
anatexis
anathema

Literary usage of Anastomotic vein

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"At this same level the two common iliac veins, united by an anastomotic vein, formed the inferior vena cava. The right kidney was the shape of a triangle at ..."

2. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"cavernous sinus ; occasionally it is united by an anastomotic loop, known as the great anastomotic vein of Trolard, with the superior longitudinal sinus, ..."

3. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Hermon C. Gordinier (1899)
"A large vein of considerable importance, the great anastomotic vein of Trolard, extends from the superior longitudinal sinus above to the cavernous or the ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"It is connected (a) with the superior sagittal sinus by the great anastomotic vein of Trolard, which opens into one of the superior cerebral veins; ..."

5. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"... by means of a vein which is called the great or superior anastomotic vein; and, very frequently, the posterior part of the superficial middle cerebral ..."

6. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"... by means of a vein which is called the great or superior anastomotic vein; and, very frequently, the posterior part of the superficial middle cerebral ..."

7. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The connection occasionally established between the superficial middle cerebral vein and the transverse sinus is called the posterior anastomotic vein; ..."

8. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1887)
"... an extensive communication between the veins of the base and those of the roof of the cranium, I propose to call it the great anastomotic vein. ..."

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