The bullet pierced the vena cava, the great vein bringing blood to the heart.
At the center of the brain, he writes, the internal cerebral veins are like "the great arches of a cathedral roof"; the Great Vein of Galen can be seen "dark blue and glittering in the light of the microscope".
"I think there must be something about being beside that great vein of a river…" She explains her acting process – how her inspiration for a character can be something "as lateral as a smell, a flower, a piece of music" – with verve.
The great vein of Galen runs anterior to the pineal gland and acts as a guiding structure.
Using a transtemporal approach, the deep cerebral veins (basal vein of Rosenthal, internal cerebral veins, and great vein of Galen) were imaged.
On further dissection between the hippocampus and thalamus, symmetric dilation of the cerebral veins coalesced into a large dilated great vein of Galen.
These catheters are often co-located with a CVC used to infuse drugs, with the tips lying in close approximation in a great vein.
Venules collect blood from the capillaries and the blood channels known as sinusoids and unite to form progressively larger veins that terminate as the great veins, or venae cavae.
Fig. 2 Theoretical vascular pressure profile from aortic values through the circulation to the great veins.
"The great veins were torn asunder and the muscles lay exposed," he wrote in his memoirs.
