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represented by the intralobular veins. The blood is finally carried, 

 as already pointed out, by the hepatic veins into the inferior vena 

 cava. The hepatic artery, a direct off-shoot of the celiac axis 



FIG. 135. The stomach, pancreas, liver, and duodenum, with part of the rest 

 of the small intestine and the mesentery; the stomach and liver have been turned 

 up so as to expose the pancreas. V, stomach; D, D', D", duodenum; L, spleen; 

 P, pancreas; R, right kidney; T, jejunum; Vf, gall-bladder; h, hepatic duct; c, 

 cystic duct; ch, common bile-duct; 1, aorta, 2, an artery (left coronary) of the 

 stomach; 3, hepatic artery; 4, splenic artery; 5, superior mesenteric artery; 6, su- 

 perior mesenteric vein; 7, splenic vein; Vp, portal vein. 



(p. 331) supplies some blood to the lobular plexuses, but by no 

 means so much as the portal vein; it all finally leaves the liver by 

 the hepatic veins. 



The bile-ducts can be readily traced to the periphery of the 



