Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun basal_vein

1 sense of basal vein

Sense 1
basal vein, vena basalis -- (a large vein passing along the medial surface of the temporal lobe and emptying into the great cerebral vein)
       => vein, 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")