Definition of Right atrium of the heart

1. Noun. The right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Atrium Of The Heart

right-wing
right-winger
right-wingers
right along
right and left
right angle
right angle clamp
right angles
right as a trivet
right as rain
right ascension
right atrioventricular valve
right atrium
right atrium of heart
right atrium of the heart (current term)
right auricular appendage
right away
right axis deviation
right back
right backs
right bank
right banks
right border of heart
right bracket
right brackets
right brain
right branch
right branch of portal vein
right branch of proper hepatic artery

Literary usage of Right atrium of the heart

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"In doing so it is changed from arterial into venous blood, which is collected by the veins and through them returned to the right atrium of the heart. ..."

2. The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567) by Jean Fernel (2003)
"... and its distribution was discussed previously little above the right atrium of the heart, the vena cava gives off another kinc branch, which is alone ..."

3. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"The Systemic Veins return the venous blood from the body generally to the right atrium of the heart. The Portal Vein, an appendage to the systemic venous ..."

4. Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit: An Elementary Laboratory Textbook in by Benjamin Arthur Bensley (1910)
"... of the body through paired internal and external jugular and subclavian veins, communicating with the right atrium of the heart through paired superior ..."

5. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss, Leslie Brainerd Arey (1917)
"Diagrammatic outline of the organs of circulation in the fetus of six months (Allen Thomson).1 RA, right atrium of the heart; RV, right ventricle ..."

6. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"Sagittal section through the Right Atrium of the Heart and the Root of the Right Lung. stream of blood entering the atrium by the superior vena cava ..."

7. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"Sagittal section through the Right Atrium of the Heart and the Root of the Right Lung. posterior part of the atrium, at the level of the third right costal ..."

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