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THE LIVER. 



[CH. XXXTII. 



Fig. 40 6. Capillary network of the lobules of the rabbit's liver. The figure is taken from a 

 very successful injection of the hepatic veins, made by Harting : it shows nearly the 

 whole of two lobules, and parts of three others ; p, interlobular (portal) branches 

 running in the interlobular spaces ; h, intralobular (hepatic) veins occupying the 

 centre of the lobules. The interlobular and intralobular vessels are connected by 

 radiating capillaries. X 45. (Kolliker.) 



Fig. 407. Section of a portion of liver passing longitudinally through a considerable 

 hepatic vein, from the pig-. H. hepatic venous trunk, against which the sides of the 

 lobules (?) are applied ; h, h, h, sublobular hepatic veins, on which the bases of the 

 lobules rest, and through the coats of which they are seen as polygonal figures ; 

 t, mouth of the intralobular veins, opening into the sublobular veins ; f, intralobular 

 veins shown passing up the centre of some divided lobules ; I, I, cut surface of the 

 liver ; c, c, walls of the hepatic venous canal, formed by the polygonal bases of the 

 lobules, x 5. (Kiernan.) 



