When it came to slavery, the Union, not the Confederacy, was the true guardian of states' rights in the antebellum era.
dym-(p)hna, dy-mph-na ] The baby girl name Dymphna is pronounced as DIHMFNaa- or DIHMPNaa- â . Dymphna is mainly used in Dutch and it is of Celtic origin. The name Dymphna means fawn. The Irish Damhnait, the Irish Devnet, the English Dimpna, and the Dutch, English, and Gaelic Dympna are variant forms of the name. Dymphna is not popular as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names.
The noun VENA CAVA has 1 sense: 1  1. either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart. 2  Meaning: 3  Either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart. 4  Classified under: 5  Nouns denoting body parts. 6  Hypernyms (vena cava is a kind of...): vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of vena cava): inferior vena cava; postcava (receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins)