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PRECAVA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does precava mean?
• PRECAVA (noun)
The noun PRECAVA 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: PRECAVA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("precava" is a kind of...):
vena cava (either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart)
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