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Definition of Renal vein
1. Noun. Veins that accompany renal arteries; open into the vena cava at the level of the 2nd lumbar vertebra.
Group relationships: Kidney
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel
Medical Definition of Renal vein
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Renal Vein
Literary usage of Renal vein
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"The first renal vein left the kidney by the hilus, passing around the left ...
renal vein No. 2 left the kidney via the hilus. passed to the right and made ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"When no valve* exist at the opening of the left spermatic vein into the left
renal vein, valves are generally present in the left renal vein within a ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"On multiplying the experiments, and varying the condition of the observation, it
was soon found that the usual red colour of the blood of the renal vein ..."
4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... erv efferent renal vein ; fa femoral artery ; fv femoral vein ; hv hepatic
vein ; ie internal carotid artery ; i.il. internal iliac artery and vein; ..."
5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"About the level of the second lumbar vertebra it receives the left renal vein,
and then crosses in front of (very rarely behind) the aorta to join the right ..."
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