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Definition of Superior pulmonary vein
1. Noun. Either of two pulmonary veins (left and right) returning blood from the superior lobes of the lungs.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superior Pulmonary Vein
Literary usage of Superior pulmonary vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Heart and Aortaby Arthur Douglass Hirschfelder by Arthur Douglass Hirschfelder (1910)
"... subclavian artery Left internal jugular vein Left subclavian vein Left pulmonary
artery Right marginal artery superior pulmonary vein Infer!or pulmonary ..."
2. Atlas and textbook of topographic and applied anatomy by Oskar Max Sigismund Schultze, George David Stewart (1905)
"The right superior pulmonary vein is situated behind the termination of the
superior vena cava in the right auricle; behind this vein are the right ..."
3. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1881)
"It- ft auricle of the he:irt ; 13. left superior pulmonary vein; 14, left inferior
... superior pulmonary vein; 16, right Inferior pulmonary vein; 17, ..."
4. A Practical Physiology by Albert Franklin Blaisdell (1897)
"A, division of left bronchus to upper lobe; B, left branch of the pulmonary
artery; C, left bronchus; D, left superior pulmonary vein; E, left inferior ..."
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