ABSORPTION. 



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FIG. 94. DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ROUTES BY WHICH THE ABSORBED FOODS REACH 

 THE BLOOD OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION (G. Bachman). I. *., Loop of small intestine; 

 int., v., intestinal veins converging to form in part, p. u., the portal vein, which enters the 

 liver and by repeated branchings assists in the formation of the hepatic capillary plexus; 

 h. u. the hepatic veins carrying blood from the liver and discharging it into, in}, v. c., the 

 inferior vena cava; int. I. v., the intestinal lymph vessels converging to discharge their 

 contents, chyle, into rec. c. the receptaculum chyli, the lower expanded part of the thoracic 

 duct; th. <2.,'the thoracic duct discharging lymph and chyle into the blood at the junction 

 of the internal jugular and subclavian veins; sit p. v. c., the superior vena cava. 



