vestibular vein


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Noun1.vestibular vein - veins that drain the saccule and utricle
vena vestibularis
vein, vena, venous blood vessel - a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood"
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Mazzoni demonstrated that in a certain percentage of human temporal bones, one or two of the vestibular veins drain through the VPVC rather than serving as tributaries of the inferior cochlear vein.
Hyperhomocysteinemia and left internal jugular vein thrombosis with Meniere's symptom complex

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