THE GREAT LYMPHATIC VEIN. 



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winch, near its termination, again subdivides into four vessels that open separately, two to the 

 right and two to the left, in the usual place. f f /. """ «^ «.'io 



"This variety is the most remarkable and complicated of all those observed in the domesti- 

 cated animals. 



Pig.-" The thoracic duct of the Pig, usually single tiiroughout its whole extent, is 



Fig. 403. 



Fi^r. 4'.»5. 



VARIETIES 1\ THE THORACIC DUCT OF THE OX. 



J^ST .f'^^fvf /r ^t^^-ir^^' ^'^^ it« ^"trance, into two br.anches which s<v,n 



reunite m an oval dilatation ; this, after receiving the vessels from the head, neck, an.l limbs 



open? t/^warls the extremity of the left jugular. ' 



CARK,voRA.-"In the Dog, the recept;culum ch^li i. enormous; iu shape it is ovoid, and 



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