Fig. 82. — 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 forma- 

 tion 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. 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 superior vena cava. — Brubaker's Physiology. 



