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n. Anatomy A vein.

n. A vein.

n. In anatomy, a vein. See vein

n. The superior or descending vena cava returns the blood from the head and neck, the upper limbs, and the whole of the thorax. It is formed by the junction of the right and left innominate veins, behind the junction of the first costal cartilage of the right side with the sternum, and descends nearly vertically to empty into the right auricle of the heart. It receives the pericardial and mediastinal veins and the large azygous vein. In vertebrates at large the two venæ cavæ are distinguished as postcaval and precaval veins. See cuts under circulation, diaphragm, embryo, heart, lung, pancreas, and thorax.

n. a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

"He discovered the valve which guards the _foramen ovale_ in the fœtus; and he not only verified the observation of Etienne as to the valve-like fold guarding the entrance of each hepatic vein into the inferior vena cava, but he also fully described the _vena azygos_."

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