vena
Americannoun
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venae
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of vena
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vēna vein
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Parkhurst put a tiny tube through an incision into the patient’s jugular vein in his neck and slowly advanced it down past the heart into the vena cava where the filter was located.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Next Parkhurst inserted tiny balloons that he inflated to reopen the threadlike stream through the narrowed vena cava.
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 renal arteries arise directly from the aorta, and the renal veins drain directly into the inferior vena cava.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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
The goal was to empty the heart of all air bubbles before reconnecting it to its prime source of blood, via the venae cavae.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
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
Blood is flowing into the right atrium from the superior and inferior venae cavae and the coronary sinus.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Such metalliferous material is usually found torn away from veins and stringers and scattered far and wide by the impetus of water, although sometimes venae dilatatae are composed of it.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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