Continuation of the caudal vein cranial to the anal pore. The cardinal vein splits into a pair of vessels in the cranial trunk, just caudal to the radix of the aorta. The posterior cardinals each empty into the common cardinal vein. [ GOC:cvs ORCiD:0000-0002-2244-7917 ]
Synonyms: caudal cardinal veins PCV axial vein postcardinal vein
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- vein
- posterior cardinal vein
- part of some axial blood vessel
- part of some trunk vasculature
- part of some cardinal system
- existence starts during or after some segmentation:26+ somites
- develops from some vascular cord