vena cava
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally "hollow vein."
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vena cava (plural venae cavae or vena cavas)
- (anatomy) Either of the two large veins that take oxygen depleted blood, from the upper body and from the lower body, and return it to the right atrium of the heart.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]large vein that returns blood into right atrium
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See also
[edit]Venae cavae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]vena cava f (plural vene cave)
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[edit]Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]vena cava f (plural venas cavas)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vena cava”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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