Vena ___ (major vessel)

Usage examples of cava.

I think the injury is to the cava, so I need to control the vessel, proximal and distal to the injury.

She handed Zach the instruments, and he guided one of them into the abdomen, pressing on the vena cava just as it divided into the iliac veins that drained the lower extremities.

The vena cava is the major vein that returns blood from the lower half of the body to the heart.

The portion of the inferior vena cava that lies behind the liver, the retro hepatic portion, is extremely difficult to expose and control in an operation.

Zach had not fared much better than most surgeons with holes in the retro hepatic vena cava, and it drove him crazy.

It was nearly impossible to gain control of the vessel without opening the chest and clamping the vena cava as it entered the heart.

The problem could be circumvented by placing a shunt into the vena cava to allow the blood to return to the heart.

Cloth ties could then be snugged around the cava above and below the injury, and a clamp applied to the other blood vessels supplying the liver.

Our abstract on fixing the vena cava during circulatory arrest was accepted.

The bullet had entered his back and exited from his right upper quadrant, where the liver and vena cava were located.

Seventy-five percent of the wall of the retro hepatic vena cava was destroyed, as well as the veins that drained the right liver.

Then the chyle, conveyed through the thoracic duct from its cistern in the mesentery, is carried to the vena cava, and so to the heart.

In each organ separation and purification of the blood are effected and removal of the heterogeneous, not to mention how the heart sends its blood up to the brain after purification in the lungs, which is done by the arteries called carotids, and how the brain returns the blood, now vivified, to the vena cava just above where the thoracic duct brings in the chyle, and so back again to the heart.

Veins like the inferior vena cava and the veins of the brain, which are not compressed by movements of the body, do not have valves.

Observe the openings into the auricle, there being one each for the vena cava superior, the vena cava inferior, and the coronary vein.