vena
Americannoun
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venae
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of vena
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vēna vein
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Was it possible that the extra blood that was supposed to go from the legs to the brain when the man stood up didn’t get there fast enough because of the narrowed vena cava?
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Parkhurst used a tiny gripping tool to grasp the hook and pull the filter up through the vena cava and out through the small incision in the patient’s neck.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
They end with the exiting of the renal veins to join the inferior vena cava.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The lymph fluid passes through lymph nodes before it returns to the heart via the vena cava.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Then, after several journeys from King’s pavilion to Constable’s, and vice vena, Sir Bon returned to his own hole.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He inserted cannulas — transparent silicone rubber tubes — into each of the vessels feeding and draining Eva Baisey’s heart, and sewed them into place in the aorta and the two venae cavae.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
First he separated the superior and inferior venae cavae, the two large vessels that return blood from the body into the right atrium, and severed them.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
Similarly, baroreceptors are stretch receptors located in the aortic sinus, carotid bodies, the venae cavae, and other locations, including pulmonary vessels and the right side of the heart itself.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The great veins, the superior and inferior venae cavae, and the great arteries, the aorta and pulmonary trunk, are attached to the superior surface of the heart, called the base.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
But this generally occurs in those mountains which contain venae cumulatae.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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