SUPERIOR VENA CAVA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

precava; superior vena cava

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("superior 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)

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