systemic vein

Definition

Any vein within the general circulation that transports blood back to the right atrium of the heart.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• cranial veins
• inferior vena cava (thoracic part)
• left subclavian vein
• right subclavian vein
• cardiac vein
• subdivision of inferior vena caval tree
• subdivision of superior vena caval tree

Neighbouring structures

• portal vein
• pulmonary vein
• subcostal vein

Identifiers

TA2

4744

FMA

66644

UBERON

0013140

Wikidata

Q66562720