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Definition of Anterior cardinal vein
1. Noun. A major drainage channel from the cephalic part of the body.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anterior Cardinal Vein
Literary usage of Anterior cardinal vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"The right common cardinal and the right anterior cardinal vein, ... is the
continuation of the anterior cardinal vein into the head of the embryo, ..."
2. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1910)
"2°, the characteristic relations of the anterior cardinal vein to the ...
The jugular, therefore, is to be defined as the anterior cardinal vein which, ..."
3. The Origin and Development of the Lymphatic System by Florence Rena Sabin (1913)
"They lie in the angle between the anterior cardinal vein and its dorso-lateral
branches and connect with both. They are opposite the third, fourth and fifth ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... dency to asymmetry, the right acv, anterior cardinal vein, posterior cardinal
being fre- dC, Ductus Cuvieri. quently considerably larger *•»• i1?*. ..."
5. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"The anterior cardinal vein receives all the blood of the head, and thus includes
the first three segmental veins. It also receives at its point of junction ..."