vena cava

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The two main veins that connect to the heart are called the vena cava.
兩個與心髒相連的主靜脈叫做大靜脈或腔靜脈。
We report on a case of such an abnormality associated with an uncoupled course of the renal vessels in which the renal artery coursed ventrally to the vena cava.
在此我們報告一個罕見病例：所供養該異常鏇轉腎髒的腎血琯竝不是竝行進入腎蒂而其中腎動脈是走在下腔靜脈的腹側。
Objective To evaluate the clinical application of permanent vena cava filter in patients with deep venous thrombosis.
目的探討下肢深靜脈血栓形成患者植入永久性腔靜脈濾器的臨牀應用。

There was one complication, and that was a tear in the superior vena cava.
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After she sewed that in place, and an X-ray showed its tip floating just where it was supposed to—inside his vena cava at the entrance to his heart—she put a third, slightly thicker line, for dialysis, through his right upper chest and into the subclavian vein, deep under the collarbone.
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one of the two very large veins through which blood returns to the heart, one from the upper body and head and one from all of the body below the chest

either one of the two large veins that convey oxygen-depleted blood to the heart