Crossword clues for vena
vena
- ___ cava (major blood vessel)
- ___ cava (path to the heart)
- ___ cava (heart connector)
- Brutus's blood vessel
- All veins except the pulmonary carry unaerated blood
- A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
- ___ cava (cor part)
- Cava or contracta preceder
- ___ cava (large vessel to the heart)
- ___ comes (artery companion)
- Blood vessel, anatomically
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vena \Ve"na\, n.; pl. Ven[ae]. [L. See Vein.] A vein.
Vena cava; pl. Ven[ae] cav[ae]. [L., literally, hollow vein.] (Anat.) Any one of the great systemic veins connected directly with the heart.
Vena contracta. [L., literally, contracted vein.] (Hydraulics) The contracted portion of a liquid jet at and near the orifice from which it issues.
Vena port[ae]; pl. Ven[AE] port[ae]. [L., literally, vein of the entrance.] (Anat.) The portal vein of the liver. See under Portal.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; all veins except the pulmonary carry unaerated blood [syn: vein, venous blood vessel]
[also: venae (pl)]
Wikipedia
In Hindu mythology, Vena was a great king. However, he became evil and corrupt. The world became so gloomy and dark that the earth-goddess Bhumidevi decided that she would not provide crops to humans anymore. She took form as a cow and went into hiding. Meanwhile, a group of Rishis killed Vena out of anger. They then rubbed the thigh of his corpse, and took out all the evil from his body. Afterwards they rubbed Vena's arm, and the good Prithu emerged. This being was Vishnu incarnate, and as soon as he was born, Vishnu's Sharanga bow fell from heaven into his hands. However, Bhumidevi still refused to give crops to people. As soon as Prithu, son of Vena, threatened to kill her, she gave in, but in return Prithu would be her eternal guardian. This is why Bhumidevi is also known as Prithvi.
In the Rigveda ( 10.123), Vena is a personification of a celestial being, perhaps the rainbow. The name of the hymn is also Vena, as is the name of the author of RV 9.85.
Vena may refer to:
People- Cornel Vena (born 1932), Romanian Olympic modern pentathlete
- Gary Vena, American academic
- Ryan Vena (born 1977), American football player
- Vena, a diminutive of the Russian male first name Avenir
- Vena, a diminutive of the Russian female first name Avenira
- Vena, a diminutive of the Russian male first name Aventin
- Vena, a diminutive of the Russian female first name Aventina
- Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA), Avaya cloud computing architecture
- Vena (Hindu King), a king in Hindu mythology
- Vena Records, a defunct US record label
- 2S31 Vena, Russian self-propelled mortar/cannon
- Vena (album), 2015 album by Japanese band coldrain
Vena is the fourth studio album by Japanese rock band coldrain, released on October 21, 2015.
Usage examples of "vena".
Bones could work the business-end of the anabolic protoplaser in close enough to heal the slashed vena cava.
He carefully freed the vena cava and the aortic arch from the surrounding tissue.
Eckley reports an instance of supernumerary lobe of the right lung in close connection with the vena azygos major.
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.
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.