Intercostal Vein (Noun)
Meaning
Several veins draining the intercostal spaces of the rib cage.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- The azygos system drains the intercostal veins that receive blood from the intercostal spaces of the thorax.
- The superior intercostal vein receives blood from the first two aortic intercostal veins and the left bronchial vein.
- The accessory hemiazygos vein collects the fourth to eighth left intercostal veins and drains into the hemiazygos vein.
- The right bronchial vein empties into the azygos vein and also receives blood from the upper right intercostal veins.
- Each posterior intercostal vein drains two intercostal spaces and empties into either the superior intercostal vein or directly into the azygos vein.