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Definition of Emissary vein
1. Noun. One of several connecting veins in the scalp and head that drain blood from sinuses in the dura mater to veins outside the skull.
Medical Definition of Emissary vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Emissary Vein
Literary usage of Emissary 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)
"(4) An inconstant condyloid emissary vein passes through the condyloid canal ...
(7) The emissary vein of the foramen of Vesalius connects the same parts. ..."
2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"They are: (i) emissary veins connected with the superior sagittal sinus—(a) from
the anterior extremity of the sinus an emissary vein passes through the ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1887)
"The pressure on the emissary vein must be considerably lower; it could n»t be
very much greater than that in the facial vein (a pressure of 5'2 mm. of ..."
4. Diseases of the nose, throat and ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1911)
"(c) Headache and tenderness over the mastoid emissary vein. ... (c) Marked
tenderness over mastoid emissary vein and the posterior triangle of the neck. ..."
5. Atlas and textbook of topographic and applied anatomy by Oskar Max Sigismund Schultze, George David Stewart (1905)
"[It generally receives the mastoid emissary vein, one of its tributaries receives
the parietal emissary vein and occasionally an emissary vein from the ..."
6. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"An emissary vein, not always present, connecting the end of the lateral sinus
with the plexus vi-nosus vertebralis ..."