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Definition of Supraorbital vein
1. Noun. Drains the front of the scalp; unites with the supratrochlear vein to form the angular vein.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supraorbital Vein
Literary usage of Supraorbital 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)
"Occasionally the frontal veins join to form a single trunk, which bifurcates at
the root of the nose into the two angular veins. The supraorbital vein (r. ..."
2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"... by another communicating branch from the supraorbital vein. ... 1, supraorbital
vein, joining the angular below and communicating behind ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1887)
"The supraorbital vein commences on the forehead, communicating with the anterior
temporal and superior palpebral veins, and runs downward and inward beneath ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Occasionally the frontal veins join to form a single trunk, which bifurcates at
the root of the nose into the two angular veins. The supraorbital vein (r. ..."
5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"... by another communicating branch from the supraorbital vein. ... 1, supraorbital
vein, joining the angular below and communicating behind ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1887)
"The supraorbital vein commences on the forehead, communicating with the anterior
temporal and superior palpebral veins, and runs downward and inward beneath ..."
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