Search Result for "superior_vena_cava":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins;
[syn: superior vena cava, precava]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

superior vena cava
    n 1: receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties
         into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos
         and both brachiocephalic veins [syn: superior vena cava,
         precava]