"axillary vein" meaning in English

See axillary vein in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: axillary veins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} axillary vein (plural axillary veins)
  1. (anatomy) A large blood vessel that conveys blood from the lateral aspect of the thorax, axilla (armpit) and upper limb toward the heart. Wikipedia link: axillary vein Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-axillary_vein-en-noun-iaCFM~jS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for axillary vein meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "axillary veins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "axillary vein (plural axillary veins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large blood vessel that conveys blood from the lateral aspect of the thorax, axilla (armpit) and upper limb toward the heart."
      ],
      "id": "en-axillary_vein-en-noun-iaCFM~jS",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "blood vessel",
          "blood vessel"
        ],
        [
          "thorax",
          "thorax"
        ],
        [
          "axilla",
          "axilla"
        ],
        [
          "heart",
          "heart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) A large blood vessel that conveys blood from the lateral aspect of the thorax, axilla (armpit) and upper limb toward the heart."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "axillary vein"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "axillary vein"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "axillary veins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "axillary vein (plural axillary veins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large blood vessel that conveys blood from the lateral aspect of the thorax, axilla (armpit) and upper limb toward the heart."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "blood vessel",
          "blood vessel"
        ],
        [
          "thorax",
          "thorax"
        ],
        [
          "axilla",
          "axilla"
        ],
        [
          "heart",
          "heart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) A large blood vessel that conveys blood from the lateral aspect of the thorax, axilla (armpit) and upper limb toward the heart."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "axillary vein"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "axillary vein"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.