NOUN
- one of several connecting veins in the scalp and head that drain blood from sinuses in the dura mater to veins outside the skull
How To Use emissary vein In A Sentence
- When the longitudinal strain is much less than the coronary, the restriction to the emissary veins becomes stronger.
- Behind either condyle is a depression, the condyloid fossa, which receives the posterior margin of the superior facet of the atlas when the head is bent backward; the floor of this fossa is sometimes perforated by the condyloid canal, through which an emissary vein passes from the transverse sinus. II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone
- They communicate with the underlying cerebral veins, and also with the diploic and emissary veins. IX. Neurology. 4g. The Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis