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

1 sense of basivertebral vein

Sense 1
basivertebral vein, vena basivertebralis -- (one of a number of veins draining the spongy substance of the vertebrae and emptying into the anterior internal vertebral venous plexus)
       => 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")