Definition of Mesenteric vein

1. Noun. A tributary of the portal vein passing from the intestine between the two layers of mesentery.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesenteric Vein

mesendoderms
mesentera
mesenteric
mesenteric adenopathy
mesenteric arteries
mesenteric artery
mesenteric glands
mesenteric hernia
mesenteric lymph nodes
mesenteric lymphadenitis
mesenteric plexus
mesenteric portion of small intestine
mesenteric vascular occlusion
mesenteric vein (current term)
mesenteric veins
mesenteric vessels
mesenterick
mesentericoparietal fossa
mesentericoparietal recess
mesentericopeptidase
mesenteries
mesenteriolum
mesenteriolum processus vermiformis
mesenteriopexy
mesenteriorrhaphy
mesenteriplication
mesenteritis
mesenterium

Literary usage of Mesenteric vein

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The superior mesenteric vein returns the blood from the small intestines and from the caecum and ascending and transverse portions of the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"A Communication on a Case of Operative Cure of Venous Thrombosis in the Region of the Superior mesenteric vein. ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The inferior mesenteric vein (v. mesenterica inferior) returns blood from the ... The inferior mesenteric vein receives the sigmoid veins from the sigmoid ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... me chief mesenteric vein ; CRS. oesophagus ; pma posterior mesenteric artery ; pmv posterior mesenteric vein ; jm. pancreas ; pn.d. pancreatic duct: pv ..."

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