Definition of Internal auditory vein

1. Noun. Veins that drain the inner ear.

Exact synonyms: Labyrinthine Vein
Group relationships: Inner Ear, Internal Ear, Labyrinth
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Internal Auditory Vein

internal-combustion engine
internal-external control
internal acoustic foramen
internal acoustic pore
internal adhesive pericarditis
internal affairs
internal anal sphincter
internal angle
internal arcuate fibres
internal attachment
internal auditor
internal auditory artery
internal auditory canal
internal auditory foramen
internal auditory meatus
internal auditory vein (current term)
internal auditory veins
internal axis of eye
internal base of skull
internal bias
internal branch of accessory nerve
internal branch of superior laryngeal nerve
internal canthus
internal capsule
internal capsule syndrome
internal carotid (nervous) plexus
internal carotid artery
internal carotid nerve
internal carotid venous plexus

Literary usage of Internal auditory vein

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

1. Diseases of the Ear: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students of Medicine by Edward Bradford Dench (1919)
"The vestibular vein joins the superior petrosal sinus, leaving the labyrinth through the aquaeductus vestibuli, while the internal auditory vein accompanies ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"... accompany the arteries, and receive those of the cochlea at the base of the modiolus, to form the internal auditory vein (vv. auditivas internan), ..."

3. On the Physiology of the Semicircular Canals and Their Relation to Seasickness by Joseph Grandson Byrne (1912)
"The blood is returned by the internal auditory vein into the superior petrosal sinus, and by small veins which pass through the cochlear and vestibular ..."

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