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basilic vein

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Noun1.basilic vein - a vein that drains the back of the hand and forearm and empties into the axillary vein
vena basilica
vein, vena, venous blood vessel - a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood"
forearm - the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist


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The cephalic vein of the left arm and the basilic vein of the right arm were also tender and indurated.
Migratory thrombophlebitis and acute Q fever by Delgado, Rosa Garcia / Emerging Infectious Diseases
She, with her snowy left arm held closely against her snowlike breast bore a burning and shining torch, raised somewhat beyond and above her golden head, held the slender stalk-like extremity by the sharp point, and offering adroitly her free arm, more shining white than was that of Pelops, in which appear the delicate veins of the upper arm and the basilic vein, such like those sandalwood lines drawn on the cleanest papyrus.
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, image, text, and vernacular poetics * by Trippe, Rosemary / Renaissance Quarterly
Venous duplex ultrasonography documented the presence of bilateral internal jugular and subclavian venous thrombosis that extended to the axillary vein on the right and the basilic vein on the left (figure 1).
Bilateral Lemierre's syndrome: a case report and literature review. ... by Werkhaven, Jay / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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