muscular veins
muscular veins
An obsolete term that formerly dignified:
(1) Any vein that drains a muscle;
(2) Veins that drain the extraocular muscles, which receive the anterior ciliary veins and empty into the superior ophthalmic vein.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive
In the
muscular veins of the right calf, thrombosis was observed by color Doppler ultrasonography.
The DVT occurred in fibular veins, calf
muscular veins or posterior tibial veins, among which 17 cases in left lower extremity, 23 in right lower extremity and 18 in both lower extremities.
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