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external jugular vein (medicine) and cycad (iou)


external jugular vein (medicine)


external jugular vein
<anatomy, vein> Superficial vein formed inferior to the parotid gland by the junction of the posterior auricular vein and the retromandibular vein, and passes down the side of the neck crossing to the sternocleidomastoid muscle vertically to empty into the subclavian vein.

Synonym: vena jugularis externa.


cycad (iou)



cycad noun. M19.
[from mod. Latin Cycas genus name, from supposed Greek kukas, scribal error for koikas accus. pl. of koix Egyptian doum-palm: see -AD1.]
An evergreen palmlike gymnospermous plant of the order Cycadales (including many fossil forms), and esp. of the genus Cycas, some members of which yield sago.
cy'cadean adjective of, pertaining to, or resembling (that of) a cycad M19.
cy'cadeoid adjective & noun (of, pertaining to, or designating) a cycadophyte of the extinct Mesozoic order Bennettitales (of Cycadeoidales) M19.
cyca'daceous adjective of or pertaining to a cycad or the cycads, or the family Cycadaceae M19.
cycadophyte noun a plant of the group Cycadophyta, which includes cycads and related fossil forms M20.