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

1 sense of hemizygos vein

Sense 1
hemizygos vein, hemizygous vein, vena hemizygos -- (a continuation of the left ascending lumbar vein; crosses the midline at the 8th vertebra and empties into the azygos 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")