vena

• “He discovered the valve which guards the _foramen ovale_ in the fœtus; and he not only verified the observation of Etienne as to the valve-like fold guarding the entrance of each hepatic vein into the inferior vena cava, but he also fully described the _vena azygos_.”

  Fathers of Biology

• “Now, we probably want to do another study just to be sure, but what's the value of innovation in vena cava filters if you aren't going to find out if they actually help patients.”

  The Issues: Health Care

• “Here's an example: there are, oh, on the order of at least 10 different companies all making a device called a vena cava filter.”

  The Issues: Health Care

• “Anal veins: those longitudinal unbranched veins extending from base to outer margin below the cubitus; the first anal, also termed vena dividens, q.v., is the 6th of the series starting from the base, and it may be followed by several others which are numbered in order to the inner margin.”

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology

• “The right ventricle sends its charge into the lungs by the vessel which is called vena arteriosa, but which in structure and function, and all other respects, is an artery.”

  V. Of the Motion, Action and Office of the Heart

• “The primitive or principal vein (Figure 1.100 v) lies below the gut, in the middle line of its ventral side, and is therefore also called the vena subintestinalis; it conducts carbonised or venous blood back from the body to the gills.”

  The Evolution of Man — Volume 1

• “All have their origin or commencement, at the ends of the arteries as I before stated: -- the veins as they proceed from the extremities toward the heart, become larger by numerous branches intercepting each other and uniting, until they are all concentrated in two canals, termed vena cava.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

• “The circulation of the blood in the liver differs from this general system; for the veins which drink up the refluent blood from those arteries, which are spread on the bowels and mesentery, unite into a trunk in the liver, and form a kind of artery, which is branched into the whole substance of the liver, and is called the vena portarum; and from which the bile is separated by the numerous hepatic glands, which constitute that viscus.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

• ““But this one is not like one of those poems, Robra, this is from the bowels of my heart, from the depths of my aorta, from the core of my superior vena cava,” he said, leaning back against the red sofa, and gazing at her with those deep blue eyes.”

  Sanguine Pizza

• “During this surgery the superior vena cava, a large vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the upper body into the heart, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery.”

  Single Ventricle Heart Defects

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