Definition of Diploic vein

1. Noun. One of the veins serving the spongy part of the cranial bones.

Exact synonyms: Vena Diploica
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel

Medical Definition of Diploic vein

1. One of the veins in the diploe of the cranial bones, connected with the cerebral sinuses by emissary veins; the main diploic veins are the frontal, anterior temporal, posterior temporal, and occipital. Synonym: vena diploica, Breschet's vein, Dupuytren's canal. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diploic Vein

diplococcin
diplococcus
diplocoria
diplodocus
diplodocuses
diploe
diploes
diploetic
diplogen
diplogenesis
diplogenic
diplogens
diplohaplontic
diploic
diploic canals
diploic vein (current term)
diploid nucleus
diploidic
diploidies
diploidization
diploids
diploidy
diplokaryon
diploma
diploma mill
diplomacies
diplomacy
diplomae
diplomaed

Literary usage of Diploic vein

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"The frontal diploic vein * arises from the plexus of the frontal diploe, and commonly ... This outlet being sometimes absent, the frontal diploic vein may ..."

2. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"... wing of the sphenoid, and terminates either in the spheno-parietal sinus or in the anterior deep temporal vein. The posterior temporal diploic vein (v. ..."

3. Practical Anatomy: An Exposition of the Facts of Gross Anatomy from the by John Clement Heisler (1920)
"The anterior or frontal diploic vein drains into the supraorbital vein at the ... 170); the anterior temporal diploic vein terminates either in a deep ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"of (1) the frontal diploic vein (r. ... postero-inferior angle of the parietal bone or through the mastoid foramen; and (4) the occipital diploic vein (v. ..."

5. The Operating room and the patient by Russell Story Fowler (1913)
"... through the fronto-sphenoid diploic vein into the cavernous sinus; through the anterior temporal diploic vein into the superior petrosal sinus; ..."

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