Boost your vocab and unleash your potential!

Recently viewed words:
Definitions of vena cava
Definition that contains vena cava
  • total parenteral nutrition administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes
  • central vein of suprarenal gland a single draining vein; on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava; on the left it empties into the left renal vein
  • ovarian vein one of the veins that drain the ovaries; the right opens into the inferior vena cava; the left opens into the left renal vein
  • tpn administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes
  • vena hepatica a vein that drains the liver; empties into the vena cava
  • common iliac vein formed by the internal and external iliac veins; unites with its fellow from the opposite side of the body to form the inferior vena cava
  • portacaval shunt shunt that is created surgically between the portal vein and the inferior vena cava so that blood from the abdominal organs can bypass the liver
  • azygos vein one of a system of veins that drain the thoracic and abdominal walls; arises as a continuation of the right ascending lumbar vein and terminates in the superior vena cava
  • vena azygos one of a system of veins that drain the thoracic and abdominal walls; arises as a continuation of the right ascending lumbar vein and terminates in the superior vena cava
  • vena ovarica one of the veins that drain the ovaries; the right opens into the inferior vena cava; the left opens into the left renal vein
My lists:
Recently viewed words: