VEIN OF PENIS

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Meaning:

A vein serving the penis

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("vein of penis" is a kind of...):

vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vein of penis"):

venae dorsales penis superficiales (superficial dorsal veins of the penis; paired tributaries of the external pudendal veins on each side)

venae dorsales penis profunda (deep dorsal vein of the penis; tributary of the prostatic plexus)

vena profunda penis (deep vein of the penis; enters the prostatic plexus)