Usually means: Major veins returning blood heart.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word vena cava:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. vena cava: Merriam-Webster
  2. vena cava: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vena cava: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vena cava: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vena cava: Vocabulary.com
  6. vena cava: Wordnik
  7. vena cava: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Vena cava: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. vena cava: Wiktionary
  10. vena cava: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vena cava: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vena cava: Dictionary.com
  13. Vena Cava (album), Vena Cava, Vena cava: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. vena cava: Rhymezone
  15. vena cava: FreeDictionary.org
  16. vena cava: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. vena cava: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. vena cava: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. vena cava: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Vena cava: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Vena cava: Merck Manuals
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. vena cava: Medical dictionary
  7. Vena cava: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vena cava)

noun:  (anatomy) Either of the two large veins that take oxygen depleted blood, from the upper body and from the lower body, and return it to the right atrium of the heart.

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