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- 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.