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internal iliac vein

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001317

A vein that begins near the upper part of the greater sciatic foramen, passes upward behind and slightly medial to the hypogastric artery and, at the brim of the pelvis, joins with the external iliac to form the common iliac vein. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_iliac_vein ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Internaliliacv.png

has related synonym

v. iliaca interna, v. hypogastrica, hypogastric vein

id

UBERON:0001317

prefLabel

Internal iliac vein

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606