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
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Examples of inferior vena cava
inferior vena cava
Structures such as the aorta, inferior vena cava and esophagus pass through the diaphragm.
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Blood for chemical analysis may be removed from the inferior vena cava or the pulmonary veins.
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Greenfield's contributions to vascular surgery didn't stop with the invention of the inferior vena cava filter, either.
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The functional lobes are separated by an imaginary plane joining the gallbladder fossa to the inferior vena cava.
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Some medical experts wondered why the surgeons did not tie off the large vein known as the inferior vena cava.
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It is not known how extensively during surgery the doctors examined the inferior vena cava for possible clots.
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As in the body, blood and nutrients enter through the hepatic artery and the portal vein, and exit through the inferior vena cava.
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But a freak injury during his senior season tore his inferior vena cava, a major blood vessel, and left him in a fight for his life.
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He tore a large vein, the inferior vena cava, that carries blood from the lower half of the body back up to the heart last November.
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The heart can then be removed by cutting the inferior vena cava, the pulmonary veins, the aorta and pulmonary artery, and the superior vena cava.
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The spleen, kidneys, and adrenal glands also lie within the abdomen, along with many blood vessels including the aorta and inferior vena cava.
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They use a specially designed catheter that's inserted through the femoral vein into the inferior vena cava which carries de-oyxgenated blood to the right atrium of the heart.
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Moore and his chief assistant, Dr. Alan Birtch, clamped off the portal vein, which delivers blood to the liver for chemical processing, and the inferior vena cava.
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These new cells are then taken up into blood circulation via the portal vein and the inferior vena cava to the heart for oxygenation and general circulation.
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About half of this enters the fetal ductus venosus and is carried to the inferior vena cava, while the other half enters the liver proper from the inferior border of the liver.
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The ductus venosus carries blood from the left portal vein to the left hepatic vein and then to the inferior vena cava, allowing placental blood to bypass the liver.
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Hayden was rushed into immediate surgery for a tear of the inferior vena cava, the large vein that carries blood from the lower half of the body to the heart.
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In abdominal sonography, the solid organs of the abdomen such as the pancreas, aorta, inferior vena cava, liver, gall bladder, bile ducts, kidneys, and spleen are imaged.
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