Definition of Auricular vein

1. Noun. One of two veins serving the ear region.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auricular Vein

auricular ganglion
auricular index
auricular ligaments
auricular muscle
auricular muscles
auricular notch
auricular point
auricular reflex
auricular standstill
auricular surface of ilium
auricular surface of sacrum
auricular systole
auricular tachycardia
auricular triangle
auricular tubercle
auricular vein (current term)
auricular veins
auriculare
auricularia
auricularly
auriculars
auriculas
auriculate
auriculated
auriculo-
auriculo-infraorbital plane
auriculoacupuncture
auriculocranial
auriculopalpebral reflex
auriculopressor reflex

Literary usage of Auricular 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)
"The posterior auricular vein (B. auricularis posterior) begins upon the side of ... Posterior External Jugular. Internal Jugular. Vertebral. auricular vein ..."

2. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Sometimes it also receives the facial vein, in whole or part, and sometimes it does not receive the posterior auricular vein. Rarely it does not commence in ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1907)
"In some the poison was injected through a mesenteric vein; in others through the auricular vein. Observations were made relative to the following conditions ..."

4. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"The posterior auricular vein (». auricularis posterior) begins upon the side of the head, in a plexus which communicates with the tributaries of the ..."

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