Definition of Postcaval

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postcaval

postcapitalist
postcapture
postcard
postcarding
postcardlike
postcards
postcardware
postcareer
postcareers
postcart
postcarts
postcatastrophic
postcaucus
postcava
postcavae
postcaval (current term)
postcavas
postcentral gyrus
postclavicle
postclavicles
postcode
postcode lottery
postcoded
postcodes
postcoding

Literary usage of Postcaval

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Observe the course of these veins; follow the postcaval through the ... Draw a diagram showing the postcaval vein and its branches, so far as observed. ..."

2. A Course in Vertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1905)
"Observe the course of these veins; follow the postcaval through the liver and find the hepatic veins. Study the common iliac vein and its branches, ..."

3. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"... and in the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates occur " postcaval vein, ... (3) Posterior caval vein, (4) Post, caval vein, (5) postcaval vein, ..."

4. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"The veins of the kidney are continued from the renal artery, and communicate solely with the postcavaL In the Marsupials, also, the iliac veins combine to ..."

5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"401, the proportions of the two veins are reversed, and the postcaval more ... The postcaval has a long course in the thorax ; before entering which it is ..."

6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"The blood of this ' reni-portal' system is collected into a sinus at the inner border of each gland, and is conveyed by the vein, k, into the postcaval ..."

7. Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim (1907)
"328) is the presence of a large unpaired postcaval rein. derived in part from the ... Thus the postcaval is made up of a posterior or renal portion, ..."

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