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facial vein
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | facial vein - any of several veins draining the facevena facialisanterior facial vein, vena facialis anterior - a continuation of the angular vein; unites with the retromandibular vein before emptying into the internal jugular veinposterior facial vein, retromandibular vein, vena retromandibularis - posterior branch of the facial vein; formed by temporal veins in front of the earvein, vena, venous blood vessel - a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood"face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" |
EncyclopediaSeeveinfacial vein
fa·cial vein [TA] a continuation of the angular vein at the medial angle of the eye; it passes inferolaterally, uniting with the retromandibular vein below the border of the lower jaw before emptying into the internal jugular vein. Synonym(s): vena facialis [TA], anterior facial vein, vena facialis anteriorfa·cial vein (fā'shăl vān) [TA] A continuation of the angular vein at the medial angle of the eye; it passes diagonally downward and outward, uniting with the retromandibular vein below the border of the lower jaw before emptying into the internal jugular vein. fa·cial vein (fā'shăl vān) [TA] Continuation of angular vein at medial angle of eye; passes inferolaterally, uniting with retromandibular vein below border of lower jaw before emptying into internal jugular vein.
Synonym(s): anterior facial vein. facial vein
Related to facial vein: facial artery, angular vein, maxillary vein, pterygoid plexus, superficial temporal vein, deep facial veinSynonyms for facial veinnoun any of several veins draining the faceSynonymsRelated Words- anterior facial vein
- vena facialis anterior
- posterior facial vein
- retromandibular vein
- vena retromandibularis
- vein
- vena
- venous blood vessel
- face
- human face
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