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Definition of Middle temporal vein
1. Noun. Arises near the eye; joins the superficial temporal veins to form the retromandibular vein.
Medical Definition of Middle temporal vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Temporal Vein
Literary usage of Middle temporal 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 middle temporal vein, previous to its junction with the temporal vein, receives
a branch, the orbital vein, which is formed by some external ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The middle temporal vein derived from a plexus in the temporal fossa, from which
the temporal veins (passing to the pterygoid plexus) also issue, ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The middle temporal vein receives the orbital vein, which is formed by some
lateral palpebral branches, and passes backward between the layers of the ..."
4. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"Superficial t. vein, a branch of the middle temporal vein from the posterior
auricular, lateral, and upper portions of the skull. Temporalis (tem-po-re'lis) ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Other tributaries of the temporal vein are as follows : The middle temporal vein,4
derived from a plexus in the temporal fossa communicating with the deep ..."
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