These small vessels unite to form larger trunks, and as they continue toward the heart increase in size until they finally unite to form the ascending and descendingvenaecavae.FromProject Gutenberg
The superior and inferiorvenaecavaeempty into the right auricle of the heart, also the blood from the coronary sinus.FromProject Gutenberg
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