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Splenic, drains the spleen by several branches, which soon unite into one, 

 this runs from left to right, below the artery, in a groove on the upper and back 

 part of the pancreas and unites with the superior mesenteric at the greater end 

 of the pancreas forming the portal vein. It receives the vasa brevia (gastric,) 

 pancreatic, left gastro-epiploic and inferior mesenteric veins. 



PLATE CXLVIT. 



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Showing the Viscera Below the Diaphragm. 



Ineerior mesenteric, passes upward behind the 1 transverse duodenum 

 and pancreas to end in the splenic; drains the rectum, sigmoid flexure, and de- 

 scending colon; and lies to the left of the artery; its hemorrhoidal branches 

 inosculate with those of the internal iliac. 



Gastric, two in number as follows: The pyloric, corresponding to the 

 pyloric branch of the hepatic artery, runs on the lesser curvature towards the 



