inferior vena cava

A vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the lower 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 inferior vena cava is

A vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the lower 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 inferior vena cava is

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

What the inferior vena cava connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of vena cava.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: right cardiac atrium, hepatic vein, lumbar vein, renal vein and right ovarian vein.

Also called

Also recorded as inferior caval vein, posterior vena cava, caudal vena cava, postcava and vena cava inferior. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001072, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: vena cava.
• Connected to: right cardiac atrium, right suprarenal vein and testicular vein.
• drains to: right cardiac atrium, hepatic vein, lumbar vein, renal vein and right ovarian vein.
• contains: common iliac vein and valve of inferior vena cava.

Questions

Where is the inferior vena cava?

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

What does the inferior vena cava connect to?

A kind of: vena cava.

Is the inferior 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.