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Definition of Angular vein
1. Noun. A short vein formed by the supraorbital vein and the supratrochlear vein and continuing as the facial vein.
Medical Definition of Angular vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Angular Vein
Literary usage of Angular vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"form the angular vein. Occasionally the frontal veins join to form a single trunk,
which bifurcates at the root of the nose into the two angular veins. ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"At the root of the nose the veins diverge and join the »upra-orbital vein, at
the inner angle of the orbit, to form the angular vein. The supra-orbital vein ..."
3. A System of human anatomy, general and special by Erasmus Wilson, George Buchanan, Henry Edward Clark (1880)
"From the nasal arch the frontal is continued downwards by the side of the root
of the nose, and near the angle of the eye, under the name of angular vein; ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Commencing at the inner border of the orbit as the angular vein, it descends
obliquely to the base of the mandible in advance of ..."
5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"... by a wide communication with the angular vein, and is also joined, usually
near its origin, by another communicating branch from the supraorbital vein. ..."
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