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vena

vee nuh

  • n  a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart

  • It is not known how extensively during surgery the doctors examined the inferior vena cava for possible clots.
  • Biggest and therefore easiest to handle was the in ferior vena cava, the great vein that drains all blood from the lower body and is attached firmly to the liver.
  • In the common ventricle it was still mixed with venous blood from the inferior vena cava, but the proportion of well-oxygenated blood was more favorable.
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  • Rich Ingold in The Spokesman Review
    We had two opportunities where our defense created turnovers and we could have gone up 10 points and Vena : just stupid throws,Ingold said. "I love Vena and I think he's the best in the game, but he has to learn to throw the ball away....

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