GREAT LYMPHATIC VEIN. 645 



Fig. 303. 



Fig. 304 



THE GREAT LYMPHATIC VEIN AND ENTRANCE OP THE THORACIC DUCT 

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TXA, CH ARACTER8 IN THE LYMpHATIC ^^ QF OTHER THAN goLipED ANi ^ g 



^^ in Ruminants and the 



daSSiM in ^ Bowing order- 



placed above and to the right of the aorta betwS itYili, - f the aortic arch ' is 

 outside the corresponding intercostal arteries iUs P 1 / i^ Spme ' There ' Chough 

 of adipose tissue, in which are ^SS^S^S^S^ <? nceal ? d % * thick layer 

 vertebra, it receives a large lymphatic vessel ^oS fmrnf If* Towards the fifth dorsal 

 on the track of the CBB^* f n t l!e ^riTZ^SiS! T^ " 8 gland that exists 

 tion of the aorta and the esophaus passes " U Cr Sses the dire - 



out its entire length, such as it has 

 described, and such as it is usually found 

 to be in small ruminants (Fi^ 309) This 

 canal (Fig. 306), single at it's origin and 

 lor the greater part of its extent, often bifur- 

 cates towards the base of the heart, or at a 

 short distance from its insertion. Of these 

 t .vo branches, one passes to the right of the 

 oesophagus and trachea, the other to the left 

 of these m following the ordinary direction 

 and, at the entrance to the thorax, they either 

 terminate separately, each in the angle of 

 union of the jugular and corresponding axil- 



B&TrS: , r t0?6ther at the same 

 gulf of the two jugular veins 



Fig 305. 



ENTRANCE OF THE THORACIC DUCT 

 THE OX. 



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