inferior ophthalmic vein

Definitions of inferior ophthalmic vein
  1. noun
    a vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socket
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    type of:
    ophthalmic vein, vena ophthalmica
    either of two veins that serve the eye; empties into the cavernous sinus
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