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What is a posterior vena cava?
It is a vein that carries blood from the lower body to the heart, also known as the posterior vena cava.
What structures do the posterior vena cava and aorta serve?
The posterior vena cava and the aorta work together to move blood to and from the lower half of the body.
The blood flows from the body to the heart passing the vein called?
Through Superior vena cava & inferior vena cava . The blood from anterior part of the body is taken to heart through superior vena cava,the blood from posterior part of the body is taken through inferior vena cava.
What system is the posterior vena cava?
the heart
What is the body's largest vein?
The vena cavae, which returns blood from the bottom half of your body back to your heart.
What is the vessel that drains blood fom all body regions located below the diaphragm muscle bofoe emptying into he right atrium?
Inferior vena cava, aka posterior vena cava.
What are the two large veins that bring blood into the right atrium?
The Largest Vein in the Heart is the Coronary Sinus, which runs in the atrioventricular groove around the posterior and lateral aspect of the Right Atrium. The Second largest vein in the heart is the Great Vein which lies anteriorly and runs with the Left Anterior Descending or Anterior Interventricular Artery, commonly referred to as the LAD or widow maker.
What is the function of the posterior vena cava?
The posterior vena cava, also called the caudal vena cava, is the large vein that collects blood from the caudal half of the animal and delivers it to the right atrium. The caudal vena cava provides venous drainage to the hind limbs, reproductive tract and digestive tract.In human's ... there ain't none.
What heart chamber dos the superior and posterior vana cava open on a fetal pig?
The heart chamber that the superior and posterior vena cava opens to on a fetal pig is the right atrium. The opening to both vena cava's are valveless.
Name the large artery that runs dorsally along the wall of the abdominal cavity?
Posterior Vena Cava in a fetal pig, Inferior Vena Cava in humans
What vessels course posterior to the inferior vena cava?
The right and left common Iliac Vein merge to form the inferior vena cava
The superior vena cava returns blood to the heart from what parts of the body?
The superior vena cava brings blood back from the upper part of the body. The inferior vena cava drains the rest of the body.
