External Nasal Vein (Noun)
Meaning
One of the veins that drain the external nose and empty into the angular or facial vein.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The external nasal vein is a superficial vein that drains the external nose and empties into the angular vein, ultimately returning blood to the heart.
- During the surgical excision of the facial skin cancer, the surgeon carefully resected the external nasal vein to remove all the affected tissue.
- In anatomy dissection class, students carefully identified the external nasal vein branching out into smaller veins covering the external nose.
- Careful attention is given to the external nasal vein when facial cosmetic procedures are performed to minimize the risk of postoperative bleeding.
- The blood from the external nasal vein flows into the angular vein and then into the facial vein, eventually returning to the common facial vein.