VENA CAVA (venae cavae)

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Irregular inflected form: venae cavae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vena cava mean? 

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

1. either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENA CAVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vena cava"):

inferior vena cava; postcava (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)

precava; superior vena cava (receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins)

 Context examples 

An abnormality of the superior or inferior vena cava that is present at birth.

(Congenital Abnormality of Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus)

Abnormal narrowing of the lumen of the inferior vena cava.

(Inferior Vena Cava Stenosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Blockage of the lumen of the inferior vena cava.

(Inferior Vena Cava Occlusion, NCI Thesaurus)

An aggressive malignant smooth muscle neoplasm, arising from the inferior vena cava.

(Inferior Vena Cava Leiomyosarcoma, 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)

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)

A vein that drains blood from the left kidney into the inferior vena cava.

(Left Renal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of damage to the superior vena cava.

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