postcava Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins
    inferior vena cava.

WordNet

Post"ca`va noun
Etymology
NL. See Post-, and Cave, n.
Wordforms
plural Postcavæ
Definitions
  1. (Anat.) The inferior vena cava. -- Post"ca`val a. B. G. Wilder.

Webster 1913