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lobnlar vein, which, running down the middle of the lobule, 

 empties into a vein at its base. This vein, lying at the base of 

 each lobule, is called the sublobular vein, and empties its con- 

 tents into the hepatic veins, by means of which the blood is 

 conveyed from the back of the liver into the inferior vena cava. 



FIG. 104. LOBULE OF RABBIT'S LIVKR, VESSELS AND BILE DUCTS INJECTED. 

 a, central or intralobular vein ; b, b, interlobular veins; c, interlobular bile duct. 



Thus each lobule is a mass of hepatic cells, pierced everywhere 

 with a network of blood capillaries. 



The bile ducts commence between the hepatic cells in the 

 form of fine canaliculi lying 1 between the adjacent sides of two 

 cells and forming a close network, the meshes of which corre- 

 spond in si'/.t; to the cells. At the circumference of the lobules, 



