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

1 sense of lingual vein

Sense 1
lingual vein, vena lingualis -- (a vein that receives blood from the tongue and the floor of the mouth and empties into the internal jugular or the facial 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")