CH. XXXVI.] 



THE KIDNEY. 



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previously stated. From each, a smaller vessel (the efferent vessel of 

 the glonterulus) passes out, and like a portal vessel on a small scale, 



Fisr. 423. Diagram showing the relation of the Malpighian body to the uriniferous ducts 

 and blood-vessels, a, one of the interlobular arteries ; a', afferent artery passing into 

 the (domerulus ; c , capsule of the Malpighian body, forming the termination of and 

 continuous with t, the uriniferous tube ; e', ', efferent vessels which subdivide and 

 form a plexus, , surrounding the tube, and finally terminate in the branch of the 

 renal vein e. (Alter Bowman.) 



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Fig. 424. Malpighian corpuscle, injected through the renal artery with colonred gelatin ; 

 a, glomerular vowels ; 6, capsule ; e, anterior capsule ; d, afferent vessel of glomerulus ; 

 e, efferent vewela ; /, epithelium of tubes. (Cadiat.) 



breaks up once more into capillaries which ramify between the 

 convoluted tubules. These unite to form veins (interlobular veins) 

 which accompany the interlobular arteries ; they pass to venous 



