The popliteal vein joined by the short saphena vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The two arteries are accompanied by venae comites, which, with the short saphena vein, form the popliteal vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Each hour I withdrew a half-pound of blood, then I fed her and for three hours I drew half a pound of blood from the saphena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

Accordingly she was robust, and I bled her from the basilic vein of the left hand and the saphena of the right foot, both within an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

A vein (anterior saphena) may be found to cross in this situation, but the saphena vein proper is not met with, as this lies nearer the inner side of the thigh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The cord, K, is placed on the inner side of the hernia; the cribriform fascia covers it; and the upper end of the saphena vein, M, passes beneath its lower border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

I may say that after the third venesection, with an interval of two hours, I withdrew a half-pound of blood from the saphena vein, and that night she slept, although she had not slept for many nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

This is apparent, too, in his treatment of hernia, which consists usually in the employment of various poultices and ointments, bleeding from the saphena, cups over the kidneys, etc., though hydrocele is tapped and a seton inserted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

The so-called saphenous opening, therefore, is naturally masked by the superficial fascia; and this membrane being here perforated for the passage of the saphena vein, and its tributary branches, as also the efferent vessels of the lymphatic glands, is termed "cribriform.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The saphena vein can generally be recognised, and is almost always safe out of the way of this incision at its inner side.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

The blood spavin is situated in front and to the inside of the hock and is merely a varicose or dilated condition of the saphena vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Make an incision three inches long commencing four fingers 'breadth below the fold of the groin, and running directly over the course of the artery; look for the great saphena vein, in the superficial fascia, at the inner.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

The great saphenous vein (v. saphena magna; internal or long saphenous vein) (Fig. 581), the longest vein in the body, begins in the medial marginal vein of the dorsum of the foot and ends in the femoral vein about 3 cm. below the inguinal ligament.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 3d. The Veins of the Lower Extremity, Abdomen, and Pelvis] Reference

The small saphenous vein (v. saphena parva; external or short saphenous vein) (Fig. 582) begins behind the lateral malleolus as a continuation of the lateral marginal vein; it first ascends along the lateral margin of the tendocalcaneus, and then crosses it to reach the middle of the back of the leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Veins. 3d. The Veins of the Lower Extremity, Abdomen, and Pelvis] Reference

Page 294 the Patient as before; make an incision about three inches in length, parallel with the inner margin of the tendo Achillis; carefully avoid the internal saphena vein, and divide the two layers of fascia upon a grooved director; open the sheath, separate the artery from the venæ comites, isolate, and introduce the needle so as to avoid the nerve which is on the external side.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

The 'superficial brachial vein', the 'cephalic' vein of the human subject, and the 'plat' vein of the farrier, may be resorted to in all lamenesses of the fore limb, and especially in all shoulder-wrenches, strains of the loins, and of the thigh and the leg, and muscular and ligamentous extensions of any part of the hind limbs; the 'vena saphena major', and the 'anterior tibial' vein may be punctured in such cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

A point about two inches below the articular surface of the tibia, and in a line with its inner edge; it should then be carried up along the femur in a direction parallel to the axis of the extended limb, so as to pass in front of the saphena vein, and thus avoid it, for a distance of five inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

I.fig. 6) must be made from the lower edge of the sartorius muscle just as it crosses the vessel, along the course of the vessel, avoiding if possible the internal saphena vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

The long saphena vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The femoral vein; 0, the saphena vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The long saphena vein should be here avoided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

The saphena vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Through this opening, the saphena vein, O, Pl. 29, enters the femoral vein, I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

On the inner side of the tibia, D, Plate 67, Figure 1, will be seen the internal or long saphena vein, B B, which commencing by numerous branches on the dorsal surface of the foot ascends in front of the inner ankle, d, to gain the inner side of the leg, after which it ascends behind the inner side of the knee and thigh, till it terminates at the saphenous opening, where it joins the femoral vein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

These are, first, the saphena vein, which, on account of its proximity to the main trunk, should be tied; the sciatic artery, which will be found near the stump of the sciatic nerve; the obturator, which is situated between the stump of the adductor brevis and magnus, usually about half-way from the center of the shaft of the femur to the inner side of the thigh, the vessel being on a level with the anterior surface of the femur; the descending branches of the external circumflex, two or three in number, usually found about an inch and a half outward and downward from the main femoral vessels beneath the rectus and in the substance of the cruræus and vastus externus.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon] Reference