SUPERIOR VENA CAVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superior vena cava mean? 

• SUPERIOR VENA CAVA (noun)
  The noun SUPERIOR VENA CAVA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SUPERIOR VENA CAVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERIOR VENA CAVA (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

precava; superior vena cava

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)

 Context examples 

A finding of damage to the superior vena cava.

(Injury to Superior Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The veins running parallel to the pericardiacophrenic arteries that drain into the brachiocephalic veins or superior vena cava.

(Pericardiacophrenic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include persistent left superior vena cava, absence of infrarenal inferior vena cava, or absence of the entire inferior vena cava.

(Congenital Abnormality of Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus)

Damage to the superior vena cava from traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Injury to Superior Vena Cava, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein in the upper chest on the left side of the body that joins with the right innominate vein to form the superior vena cava.

(Left Brachiocephalic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)