superior vena cava

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

   Synonymsprecava

   Broadervena cava

Questions about superior vena cava

What does superior vena cava mean?

superior vena cava means "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".

What is another word for superior vena cava?

Close synonyms include precava. 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 superior vena cava a common word?

superior 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.