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which it flows on through the capillaries of the lobules themselves. 

 These (Fig. 134) unite in the center of the lobule to form a small 

 intralobular vein, which carries the blood out and pours it into one 



Flo. 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. 



of the branches of origin of the hepatic vein, called the sublobular 

 vein. Each of the latter has many lobules emptying blood into it, 

 and if dissected out with them would look something like a branch 

 of a tree with apples attached to it by short stalks, represented by 



