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Definition
either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart
- Sutures—stitches—get sewn into the aorta, the superior vena cava, and the inferior vena cava.
- Sutures—stitches—get sewn into the aorta, the superior vena cava, and the inferior vena cava.
- I skipped over the part about how her heart would be removed: the inferior and superior vena cava divided, then the aorta.
- Then the inferior vena cava, then the superior vena cava, then the pulmonary artery, and finally, the aorta.
- Then the inferior vena cava, then the superior vena cava, then the pulmonary artery, and finally, the aorta.
There are no more uses of "vena cava" in Change of Heart by Picoult.
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