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Definition of Superior vena cava
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Superior vena cava
1. Noun. (anatomy) The large vein which returns blood from the head, neck, thorax and both upper limbs to the right atrium of the heart. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Superior Vena Cava
Literary usage of Superior vena cava
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The superior vena cava receives the blood which is conveyed to the heart ...
The superior vena cava has no valves. The Azygos Veins connect together the ..."
2. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The superior vena cava is the great vein returning the blood from the head,
fore-limb, and cranial part of the trunk. It extends from the level of the first ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"The vein from the first intercostal spa ce opens directly into the corresponding
vertebral or innominate vein. The superior vena cava ..."
4. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1895)
"I may tell you at once that the case in question is a relatively rare one,—namely,
compression of the superior vena cava by a neoplasm. ..."
5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1890)
"Rupture of an aneurism of the arch of the aorta into the superior vena cava, one
of the causes referred to, is so rare an occurrence that we have been ..."
6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1900)
"The large azygos vein did not open into the superior vena cava outside the ...
It then opened into the superior vena cava one inch and a half distant from ..."
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