Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun inferior_vena_cava

1 sense of inferior vena cava

Sense 1
inferior vena cava, postcava -- (receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins)
       => vena cava -- (either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart)