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

1 sense of vena cava

Sense 1
vena cava -- (either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart)
       => vein, vena, venous blood vessel -- (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood")