Sinus venosus

[TA] a cavity at the caudal end of the embryonic cardiac tube in which the veins from the intraembryonic and extraembryonic circulatory arcs unite; in the course of development, it forms the portion of the right atrium known in adult anatomy as the sinus of the vena cava. SYN: saccus reuniens.

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