vena cutanea vs vena

vena cutanea and vena both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vena cutanea	Yes	No	No	No
vena	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, vena is a hypernym of vena cutanea; that is, vena is a word with a broader meaning than vena cutanea:

vena cutanea: one of a number of veins in the subcutaneous tissue that empty into deep veins
vena: a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

Other hypernyms of vena cutanea include vein, venous blood vessel.

vena cutanea (noun)	vena (noun)
one of a number of veins in the subcutaneous tissue that empty into deep veins	a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart