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Definition of Middle cerebral vein

1. Noun. Either of two cerebral veins.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Cerebral Vein

Literary usage of Middle 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)
"... and open into the sinus in a direction more or less opposed to the current of the blood contained within it. The middle cerebral vein (v. cerebri media; ..."

2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"The inferior cerebral veins which do not terminate in the superficial middle cerebral vein run downwards, towards the infero-lateral border of the ..."

3. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"... sinuses and is drained by way of the jugular foramen into the internal jugular vein (Fig. 284 C, D). The middle cerebral vein becomes the superior ..."

4. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"The inferior cerebral veins which do not terminate in the superficial middle cerebral vein run downwards, towards the infero-lateral border of the ..."

5. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"... the union of (a) a small anterior cerebral vein which accompanies the anterior cerebral artery, (b) the deep middle cerebral vein (deep Sylvian vein), ..."

6. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The connection occasionally established between the superficial middle cerebral vein and the transverse sinus is called the posterior anastomotic vein; ..."

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