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Definition of Azygos vein
1. Noun. One of a system of veins that drain the thoracic and abdominal walls; arises as a continuation of the right ascending lumbar vein and terminates in the superior vena cava.
Medical Definition of Azygos vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Azygos Vein
Literary usage of Azygos vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The larger, or right azygos vein (vena azygos major), commences opposite the first
... The left upper azygos vein varies according to the size of the left ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1869)
"Cancer of Right Mamma; Secondary Cancer of Pleura and Bronchial Glands ; Pressure
on azygos vein and Right Bronchus ; Left Hydrothorax twice relieved by ..."
3. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1881)
"They begin behind in the lumbar veins, and the right azygos vein Advances and
... Another system of venous structures goes by the name of the azygos vein, ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Just before it pierces the pericardium, it receives the azygos vein and ...
The azygos vein (v. azygos; vena azygos major) begins opposite the first or ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"There is ordinarily a valve in the arch of the azygos vein. The hemi-azygos veins
commonly appear as two trunks, which relate with the left intercostal ..."
6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1900)
"SAC LN WHICH THE LARGE azygos vein PIERCED THE SAC BEFORE OPENING INTO THE ...
The large azygos vein did not open into the superior vena cava outside the ..."
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