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Compare the thickness of the walls of the superior and inferior vena cava and the aorta?
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∙ 13y ago
The aorta has significantly thicker walls than the superior and inferior venae cavae as the aorta is an artery that must respond to significant intraluminal pressures whereas the venae cavae are veins that have minimal intraluminal pressure.
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∙ 14y agoThe aorta is larger. The aorta is also the largest artery in the body.
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∙ 14y agoYes, the vena cava is generally slightly larger in diameter than than the aorta, assuming volume status is normal and there are no aortic abnormalities.
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∙ 15y agoThicker
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∙ 13y agoAorta
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∙ 11y agoYes.
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Largest artery in the heart?
The Aorta is the biggest artery, and the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava are the largest veins.
What is the biggest most important artery in your body?
The aorta. The Superior and Inferior Vena Cavas are the biggest veins in the body. Hope this helps.
What is attached to the heart?
The superior vena cava, inferior vena cava aorta and other major blood vessles
Mesenteric artery in human?
There are two mesenteric arteries in the human the superior and inferior. Both leave the descending aorta directly nad supply the GI tract. These arteries provide the definition of the the boundaries of the foregut, midgut and hindgut. The superior supplies the midgut and the inferior supplies the hindgut.
What is the section of descending aorta inferior to the diaphragm?
abdominal aorta is the portion of the descending aorta inferior to the diaphragm. it passes thru a hole in the diaphragm called aortic hiatus
What divides the aorta into a superior thoracic aorta and an inferior abdominal aorta?
The diaphragm.
What are the three branches of the aorta?
Celiac, superior and inferior mesenteric arteries
What vessel enters the right atrium?
The superior and inferior vena cava.
What is an artery the left ventricle aorta superior vena cava inferior vena cava?
superior vena cava
Largest artery in the heart?
The Aorta is the biggest artery, and the Superior and Inferior Vena Cava are the largest veins.
What is the biggest most important artery in your body?
The aorta. The Superior and Inferior Vena Cavas are the biggest veins in the body. Hope this helps.
What are the major work of heart blood vessels blood?
The Superior and Inferior Vena Cava ,the Pulmonary Artery and the Aorta
What is attached to the heart?
The superior vena cava, inferior vena cava aorta and other major blood vessles
What is the largest vein that collects all of the oxygen poor blood from the body?
the superior and inferior vena cava.
What are the 8 great vessels of the heart?
Aorta, Superior and Inferior Vena Cava, 4 pulmonary veins and the pulmonary artery
What are the main blood vessels leding to and from the heart?
Inferior Vena Cava, Superior Vena Cava, Pulmonary Artery and Vein, Aorta
Largest artery and largest vein?
The largest vein in the human body is the inferior vena cava, the vein that returns blood from the lower half of the body back to the heart.
