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FIG. 88. DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ROUTES BY WHICH THE ABSORBED FOODS REACH 

 THE BLOOD OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION (G. Bachmann.) I. 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, inf. 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. d., the thoracic duct discharging lymph and chyle into the blood at the junction 

 of the internal jugular and subclavian veins; sup. v. c., the supencr vena cava. 



