anterior vena cava

A vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the upper half of the body into the right atrium of the heart. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the anterior vena cava is

A vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the upper half of the body into the right atrium of the heart. The atlas records it as a vein at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the anterior vena cava is

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the anterior vena cava connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of vena cava.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: right cardiac atrium.

Also called

Also recorded as superior caval vein, superior vena cava, cranial vena cava, precava, vena cava superior and vena maxima. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001585, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: vena cava.
• Connected to: right cardiac atrium, azygos vein and brachiocephalic vein.
• drains to: right cardiac atrium.

Questions

Where is the anterior vena cava?

It sits within the cardiovascular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the anterior vena cava connect to?

A kind of: vena cava.

Is the anterior vena cava the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.