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FIG. 283. Lepus cuniculus. The stomach, duodenum, posterior portion of rectum and 

 liver (in outline) with their arteries, veins and ducts. A, the coeliac artery of another 

 specimen (both X |). The gullet is cut through and the stomach somewhat displaced 

 backwards to show'the ramifications of the coeliac artery (cce. a.) ; the duodenum is spread 

 out to the right of the subject to show the pancreas (/.) ; the branches of the bile-duct 

 (c. />. d.\ portal vein (/. z/.) and hepatic artery (h. a.) are supposed to be traced some dis- 

 tance into the various lobes .of the liver, a. m. a. anterior mesenteric artery ; can. caudate 

 lobe of liver with its artery, vein and bile-duct ; c. b. d, common bile-duct ; cd. st. cardiac 

 portion of stomach ; c. il. a, common iliac artery ; COP. a. coeliac artery ; cy. a. cystic 

 artery ; cy. d. cystic duct ; d. ao. dorsal aorta ; du. proximal, and dn'. distal limbs of duo- 

 denum ; dn. a. by. a. duodenal artery ; du. ha. (in A), duodeno-hepatic artery ; g. a gastric 

 artery and vein ; g. b. gall bladder ; h. a. hepatic artery ; h. d. hepatic duct ; /. c. left 

 central lobe of liver, with its artery, vein and bile-duct ; l.g.v. lieno-gastric vein ; /. /. 

 left lateral lobe of liver with its artery, vein and bile-duct ; ms. branch of mesenteric 

 artery and vein to duodenum ; ms. r. mesorectum ; m. v. chief mesenteric vein ; <rs. oeso- 

 phagus ; p. in. a. posterior mesenteric artery ; p. in. i>. posterior mesenteric vein ; pn. 

 pancreas ; pn. d. pancreatic duct ; p. v. portal vein ; py. st. pyloric portion of stomach ; 

 ret. rectum ; r. c. right central lobe of liver, with artery, vein and bile-duct ; spg. Spige- 

 lian lobe of liver with its artery, vein and bile-duct ; spl. spleen ; sp. a. splenic artery. 

 (From Parker's Zoototrty.) 



