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FIG. 115. DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ROUTES BY WHICH THE ABSORBED FOODS 

 REACH THE BLOOD OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION (G. Bachman). I. i., Loop of 

 small intestine; int.v., intestinal veins converging to form in part, p. v., the portal 

 vein, which enters the liver and by repeated branchings assists in the formation of 

 the hepatic capillary plexus; h. v., the hepatic veins carrying blood from the liver 

 and discharging it into, inf. v. c., the inferior vena cava; int. L v., the intestinal 

 lymph vessels converging to discharge their contents, chyle, into rec. c. the receptac- 

 ulum 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 superior vena cava. (From Brubaker's Text- 

 book of Physiology.') 



