iliac vein
1
5.1
- noun
- /ˈɪliæk veɪn/
- Specialized
:
vena ilíaca
- During the surgery, the surgeon carefully examined the iliac vein to ensure it was functioning properly.
Examples
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The doctor explained that the iliac vein is crucial for draining blood from the legs.
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An obstruction in the iliac vein can lead to serious complications like deep vein thrombosis.
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And what Norman Freeman did was he took an iliac vein and sewed it inside the aortic aneurysm.
Synonyms
A pelvic vein that carries blood from the leg toward the heart
A large vein on each side of the lower body that joins to form the vein to the heart
A large vein in the pelvis that carries blood from the leg to the heart
A vein inside the pelvis that joins the external iliac vein to form the common iliac vein
A vein in the pelvis that joins the external iliac vein to form the common iliac vein
How Big
- Specialized
1
4.6
- Specialized
239
2.6
- Specialized
1
5.1
- Specialized
- Specialized
11
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a vein related to the pelvis' is directly and compositionally derived from 'iliac' (pertaining to the pelvic/ilium bone) + 'vein' (a blood vessel that returns blood). Although this is a technical anatomical term, its components transparently indicate the referent and many languages use equivalent composition, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Iliac vein comes from a Latin word for the top of the hip bone, the 'ilium', so iliac means 'of the hip' and vein means 'blood vessel'. These veins run beside the pelvis and carry blood from the legs into the big vein that returns blood to the heart, so the name shows where they are and what they do.