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ANATOMY IN A NUTSHELL. 



pylorus, and ends in the portal vein. The coronary, corresponding to the gas- 

 tric artery,runs on the lesser curvature toward the oesophagus, and then curves 

 downward and backward in the lesser omentum to end in the portal vein. 



Portal vein three or four inches long, begins behind the upper border of 

 the right end of the pancreas by the union of the splenic and superior mesenteric. 

 11 ascends in the right border of the lesser omentum, between and behind the 



PLATE CXLVIII. 



SUPERIOR 



PANCREATICO DUODENAUS 



INFERIOR 



ABDOMINAL AORTA 



Showing Blood Supply of Stomach. 



hepatic artery (to the Left ) and duct (to the right,) enters the transverse fissure 

 of the liver,and becomes a dilated (sinus); it then divides into two branches (the 

 right is larger but shorter) which enter the two main lobes of the liver and split 

 up. It receives the gastric and cystic veins, the latter from the gall-bladder. 

 The vessels of the liver form two sets: The superficial vessels arise, over 

 the entire surface, in the subperitoneal areolar tissue. Those on the convex 

 surface form four groups, viz.. (1) three or four branches which run forward 



