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

1 sense of lumbar vein

Sense 1
lumbar vein, vena lumbalis -- (veins that drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses)
       => 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")