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Definition of Anterior cerebral vein

1. Noun. Accompanies the anterior cerebral artery and empties into the basal vein.

Medical Definition of Anterior cerebral vein

1. A small vein that parallels the anterior cerebral artery and drains into the basal vein. Synonym: vena cerebri anterior. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anterior Cerebral Vein

Literary usage of Anterior cerebral vein

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"This vein receives three principal tributaries, viz., the anterior cerebral vein from the eye, fore-brain, and mid-brain, the middle cerebral vein Middle ..."

2. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"... persists as the sinus cavernosus and receives the ophthalmic vein from the eye and the anterior cerebral vein from the fore- and mid-brain regions (Fig. ..."

3. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"Those from the temporal and frontal lobes empty into the spheno-parietal sinus and cavernous sinus, excepting the small anterior cerebral vein and the deep ..."

4. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"The basal vein is formed at the anterior perforated substance by the union of (a) a small anterior cerebral vein which accompanies the anterior cerebral ..."

5. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"The majority of the veins on the medial surface of the hemisphere terminate in the anterior cerebral vein, which runs along the upper surface of the corpus ..."

6. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"The majority of the veins on the medial surface of the hemisphere terminate in the anterior cerebral vein, which runs along the upper surface of the corpus ..."

7. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"anterior cerebral vein (PI. IlI, figs. 23 to 25 ; A.Cer.V.). ... Then curving obliquely cephalad, the anterior cerebral vein proper crosses the III and IV ..."

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