| APV | abnormal posterior vector |
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| CPC | central posterior curve; cerebellar Purkinje cell; cerebral palsy clinic; cerebral performance categ... |
| EPA | eicosapentaenoic acid; empiric phrase association; Environmental Protection Agency; erect posterior-... |
| FDP | fibrin degradation product; fibrinogen degradation product; flexor digitorum profundus; frontodextra... |
| FLP | left frontoposterior [position of the fetus] [Lat. fronto-laeva posterior]; functional limitations p... |
| phrenic veins | See: inferior phrenic vein, superior phrenic veins. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Cockett communicating perforating veins | Mid-thigh perforation veins that connect the deep and superficial venous systems. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colic veins | See: right colic vein, middle colic vein, left colic vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plantar digital veins | Drain the plantar and distal dorsal aspects (nail beds) of the toes and pass back to form four metatarsal veins that in turn empty into the plantar venous arch. Synonym: venae digitales plantares. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plantar metatarsal veins | Veins receiving the plantar digital veins and draining in turn into the deep plantar venous arch, which empties into the medial and lateral plantar veins. Synonym: venae metatarseae plantares. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conjunctival veins | The veins of the conjunctiva which drain primarily to the ophthalmic veins. Synonym: venae conjunctivales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| musculophrenic veins | The veins that accompany the musculophrenic artery and drain blood from the upper abdominal wall, and anterior portions of the lower intercostal spaces and the diaphragm. Synonym: venae musculophrenicae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pontine veins | Several veins running transversely on the pons to join the petrosal vein. Synonym: venae pontis, veins of pons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemorrhoidal veins | An obsolete term for rectal veins. See: inferior rectal veins, middle rectal veins, superior rectal vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cuvier's veins | The common cardinal vein's of the embryo. See: cardinal veins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prefrontal veins | The superficial veins draining the prefrontal cerebral cortex and emptying into the superior sagittal sinus. Synonym: prefrontal veins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sacral veins | See: lateral sacral veins, median sacral vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenous veins | See: accessory saphenous vein, great saphenous vein, small saphenous vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sappey's veins | Several small veins arising from cutaneous veins about the umbilicus running along the round ligament of the liver, and terminating as accessory portal veins in the substance of this organ; they constitute a portocaval anastomosis and are subject to varicosity druign portal hypertension; varicose paraumbilical veins form the "caput medussae". Synonym: venae paraumbilicales, Sappey's veins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hepatic veins | Veins which drain the liver. (12 Dec 1998) |