NOUN
- a vein formed by branches from the back surface of the eye and the ciliary body; empties into the ophthalmic veins
How To Use vorticose vein In A Sentence
- Obstruction to outflow of blood through the vorticose veins, by the increased intra-ocular pressure, has long been a recognized explanation of the malignant tendency of glaucoma -- a part of the vicious circle established in this disease. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
