It brings back blood to the heart from everywhere in the body inferior to the diaphragm, whilst the superior vena cava drains everything above the diaphragm.
There are exceptions to this in anastomoses[?] between the two. Two good examples are the azygos vein[?] system and in the venous plexuses[?] next to the spinal cord but the preceding statement is largely true.
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