INFERIOR VENA CAVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inferior vena cava mean? 

• INFERIOR VENA CAVA (noun)
  The noun INFERIOR VENA CAVA has 1 sense:

1. receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins

  Familiarity information: INFERIOR VENA CAVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFERIOR VENA CAVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

inferior vena cava; postcava

Hypernyms ("inferior vena cava" is a kind of...):

vena cava (either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart)

 Context examples 

This includes the aorta, superior and inferior vena cava and the pulmonary arteries and veins.

(Great Blood Vessel, NCI Thesaurus)

The right adrenal vein empties directly into the inferior vena cava and the left adrenal vein empties into the left renal vein.

(Adrenal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include persistent left superior vena cava, absence of infrarenal inferior vena cava, or absence of the entire inferior vena cava.

(Congenital Abnormality of Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus)

The blood vessels that drain blood from the central veins of the liver into the inferior vena cava.

(Hepatic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

The right atrium receives venous deoxygenated blood from the entire body via the superior and inferior vena cavae and pumps blood into the right ventricle.

(Cardiac Atrium, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal narrowing of the lumen of the inferior vena cava.

(Inferior Vena Cava Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The hole in the right atrium where the inferior vena cava enters.

(Inferior Vena Cava Opening, NCI Thesaurus)

Damage to the inferior vena cava from traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Injury to Inferior Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of damage to the inferior vena cava.

(Injury to Inferior Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Either of two veins (right or left) that drains its corresponding ovary into the inferior vena cava.

(Ovarian Vein, NCI Thesaurus)