The hemiazygos vein (vena azygos minor inferior) is a vein running superiorly in the lower thoracic region, just to the left side of the vertebral column. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiazygos_vein ]

Synonyms: vena hemiazygos inferior hemi-azygos vein hemi-azygos vein hemiazygous vein

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Term information

Subsets

human_reference_atlas

depiction

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Gray480.png

has related synonym

hemiazygos veins

hemiazygous vein

hemiazygos

id

UBERON:0006663

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

taxon notes

The major anatomic variation between the pig and other mammalian species is the presence of the large left azygos vein, which enters the coronary sinus (Fig. 1). In other mammals, hemiazygos vein enters the pre- cava.