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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: inferior vena cava, postcava]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Postcava \Post"ca`va\, n.; pl. Postcav[ae] . [NL. See Post-,
   and Cave, n.] (Anat.)
   The inferior vena cava. -- Post"ca`val, a. --B. G. Wilder.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

postcava
    n 1: 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 [syn:
         inferior vena cava, postcava]