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stomach and anastomose with the left gastric artery. Others carry 

 blood to the pylorus and the beginning of the duodenum, as well as to 



V. colica media. 



V. mesenterica caudalis. \ 



V. lienalis. \ '< 



Spleen. '; 



Small colon. 



V. gastrica caudalis. ^ 

 Stomach. ^ 



V. gastroepiploica sinistra. ^ 

 Liver. 



'. gastrica cranialis. 

 V. portse.-^ 



, gastroepiploica 



[extra. 



Duodenum. ' 



pancreaticoduodenalis. "^ 

 V. mesenterica cranialis 



Right dorsal colon. -- 



Ramus iliacus. 



Small intestine. 



Left ventral colon 



Left dorsal colon. -- 



Pelvic flexure 



Fig. 59. — Diagram of the portal vein and its tributaries. 



the right extremity of the stomach, (c) The x>roper hepatic artery (a. 

 hepatica propria) gains the porta of the liver and there divides into 



