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smallest cardiac vein

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small·est cardiac vein (smôlst)
n.
Any of the numerous small venous channels that open directly into the chambers of the heart from the capillary bed in the cardiac wall.

smallest cardiac vein,
one of the tiny vessels that drain deoxygenated blood from the myocardium into the atria. A few of these vessels end in the ventricles. Also called vein of Thebesius. Compare anterior cardiac vein. See also coronary vein.


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