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  • These small ramifications unite again into branches continually larger and larger, till they form two great tubes, called the venae cavae; which large veins are inserted into the right auricle of the heart; where a vein, termed the coronary vein of the heart, which returns the blood from the heart itself, also terminates.

    Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784

  • And there it was, large as three fists, venae cavae and aorta thicker than thumbs, a disembodied moose heart lying next to the vacuum sealer.

    Casualty Cortney McLellan 2010

  • Cum autem fluxus cupiditatis Evam intravit, omnes venae eius in fluvium sanguinis apertae sunt.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Amantium morbus ut pruritus solvitur, venae sectione et cucurbitulus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves in the veins, the venae lacteae, the lymphatic vessels, the Copernican hypothesis, the nature of comets and new stars, the satellites of

    Essays 2007

  • Cura a venae sectione per aures, unde semper steriles.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Exuritur sanguis et venae obstruuntur, quibus obstructis prohibetur transitus Chili ad jecur, corrumpitur et in rugitus et flatus vertitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Calefactio et ebullitio per venae incisionem, magis saepe incitatur et augetur, majore impetu humores per corpus discurrunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ventriculus et venae meseraicae concurrunt, quod hae partes obstructae sunt, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The tricuspid valves are placed, like gate-keepers, at the entrance into the ventricles from the venae cavae and pulmonary veins, lest the blood when most forcibly impelled should flow back.

    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

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