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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
The blood in the superior and inferior venae cavae flows into the right atrium, which pumps blood into the right ventricle.
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
The tricuspid valves are placed, like gate-keepers, at the entrance into the ventricles from the venae cavae and pulmonary veins, lest the blood when most forcibly impelled should flow back.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
