Answer: Great cardiac vein
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Structure. Two main pulmonary veins emerge from each lung hilum receiving blood from three or four bronchial veins apiece and draining into the left atrium.An inferior and superior main vein drains each lung so there are four main veins in total. At the root of the lung the right superior pulmonary vein lies in front of and a little below the pulmonary artery; the inferior is situated at ...

Angiography or arteriography is a medical imaging technique used to visualize the inside or lumen of blood vessels and organs of the body with particular interest in the arteries veins and the heart chambers. This is traditionally done by injecting a radio-opaque contrast agent into the blood vessel and imaging using X-ray based techniques such as fluoroscopy. The word itself comes from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον angeion " vessel …

The inferior vena cava (or IVC) is a large vein that carries the deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart.It is formed by the joining of the right and the left common iliac veins usually at the level of the fifth lumbar vertebra.. The inferior vena cava is the lower ("inferior...

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