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Plymouth 1, (oh)



1
a port and base for the British navy, in Devon, southwest England. In the UK people think of it in connection with Francis Drake, the 16th century explorer and navy commander. People in the US think of it as the place from which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America.

lumbar veins (medicine)


lumbar veins


Five in number, these veins accompany the lumbar arteries, drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses, and terminate anteriorly as follows: the first and second in the ascending lumbar vein, the third and fourth in the inferior vena cava, and the fifth in the iliolumbar vein; all communicate via the ascending lumbar veins.

Synonym: venae lumbales.