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Medical Definition of duct of Cuvier
: either of a pair of large transverse venous sinuses that conduct blood from the cardinal veins to the sinus venosus of the vertebrate embryo—called also common cardinal vein
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Biographical Note for duct of cuvier
G. Cuvier
, —see cuvierian vein
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