Definition of Circumflex vein

1. Noun. Any of several curved parallel veins accompanying arteries of the same name.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumflex Vein

circumflex accent
circumflex accents
circumflex artery
circumflex artery of the thigh
circumflex branch of left coronary artery
circumflex femoral arteries
circumflex femoral vein
circumflex fibular artery
circumflex humeral arteries
circumflex humeral artery
circumflex iliac arteries
circumflex iliac artery
circumflex iliac vein
circumflex nerve
circumflex scapular artery
circumflex vein (current term)
circumflex veins
circumflexes
circumflexion
circumflexions
circumfluence
circumfluent
circumfluous
circumforanean
circumforaneous
circumfuse
circumfused
circumfuses
circumfusile
circumfusing

Literary usage of Circumflex vein

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

1. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by Marcus Beck (1884)
"Dupuytren actually wounded the epigastric artery in one case ; arid Houston had much difficulty from the circumflex vein in another instance. ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"... superior epigastric vein; it joins the external iliac about 1.25 cm. above the inguinal ligament. The Deep Iliac circumflex vein (v. circumflexa ilium ..."

3. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"The Deep Iliac circumflex vein (v. circumflexa ilium profunda) is formed by the union of the vena; comitantes of the deep iliac circumflex artery, ..."

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