Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular

The heart and blood vessels, by which blood is pumped and circulated through the body.

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renal veins

Anatomy; Cardiovascular

The renal veins are veins that drain the kidney. They connect the kidney to the inferior vena cava.

The testicular vein (or spermatic vein), the male gonadal vein, carries deoxygenated blood from its corresponding testis to the inferior vena cava or one of its tributaries. It is the male equivalent ...

common illiac vein

Anatomy; Cardiovascular

In human anatomy, the common iliac veins are formed by the external iliac veins and internal iliac veins and together, in the abdomen at the level of the fifth lumbar vertebrae, form the inferior ...

external iliac vein

Anatomy; Cardiovascular

The external iliac veins are large veins that connect the femoral veins to the common iliac veins. Their origin is at the inferior margin of the inguinal ligaments and they terminate when they join ...

internal iliac vein

Anatomy; Cardiovascular

The internal iliac vein (hypogastric vein) begins near the upper part of the greater sciatic foramen, passes upward behind and slightly medial to the Internal iliac artery and, at the brim of the ...

external pudendal vein

Anatomy; Cardiovascular

The external pudendal veins (deep pudendal & superficial pudendal) are veins of the pelvis which drain into the great saphenous vein.

deep femoral vein

Anatomy; Cardiovascular

Profunda femoris vein (or deep femoral vein) is a large deep vein in the thigh. It receives blood from the inner thigh and proceeds superiorly and medially running alongside the profunda femoris ...