inferior vena cava

1. 1.

   receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins

   Synonymspostcava

   Broadervena cava

Questions about inferior vena cava

What does inferior vena cava mean?

inferior vena cava means "receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins".

What is another word for inferior vena cava?

Close synonyms include postcava. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inferior vena cava a common word?

inferior vena cava is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.