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Definition of Epigastric vein

1. Noun. Veins serving the anterior walls of the abdomen.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigastric Vein

Literary usage of Epigastric vein

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"In cases of femoral phlebitis consecutive to operation for inguinal hernia, the lesion of the epigastric vein may be the original cause, the phlebitis ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The Inferior epigastric vein (v. epigastrica inferior; deep epigastric vein) is formed by the union of the venae comitantes of the inferior epigastric ..."

3. The surgical anatomy of the arteries, and descriptive anatomy of the heart by Valentine Flood (1850)
"epigastric vein The epigastric vein arises from the external iliac close to ... epigastric vein ..."

4. Atlas and textbook of topographic and applied anatomy by Oskar Max Sigismund Schultze, George David Stewart (1905)
"The superficial epigastric vein anastomoses above with the long thoracic ... -epigastric vein, and thus aids in the formation of a subcutaneous venous ..."

5. Medical and Physiological Commentaries by Martyn Paine (1840)
"Each communicated with the epigastric vein, across the rectus muscle. There, was one very large communication at one point; and yet the epigastric vein ..."

6. A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (vertebrata.) by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1906)
"... the epigastric vein enters the left lobe of the liver on its posterior face: two other abdominal veins bring blood from the ventral body wall, ..."

7. Practical Anatomy: An Exposition of the Facts of Gross Anatomy from the by John Clement Heisler (1920)
"The Superficial epigastric vein. 6. The Superficial Circumflex Iliac Vein. ... I. Superficial epigastric vein. Connects with thoraco-epigastric 1. ..."

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