THE ABDOMINAL AORTA 



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crura to the under surface of the diaphragm. Each supplies 

 suprarenal capsular branches, the right sending branches to the 

 liver and vena cava; the left, to the spleen and esophagus. 



FIG. 43 



Cystic artery. 



The celiac axis and its branches, the liver having been raised and the lesser 



omentum removed. 



II. The lumbar, five on each side, pass behind the psoas and 

 sympathetic, and divide into a dorsal branch to the back, and 

 an abdominal branch running between the abdominal muscles, 

 joining branches of the epigastric, intercostal, iliolumbar, and 

 internal mammary. 



III. The middle sacral, along the middle of the front of the 

 sacrum to the coccyx, joining the lateral sacral and entering 

 Luschka's gland. 



