DUODENUM, PANCREAS, ETC., OF RABBIT. 25 



more or less distinctive of the Rabbit may be enumerated, firstly, the great 

 distance, a foot or even as much as twenty inches from the opening, c, of 

 the bile-duct, at which the pancreatic duct, e, opens into the duodenum 



FIG. 2. (One-half less than natural size.) DUODENUM, PANCREAS, AND SPLEEN, WITH PORTIONS 

 OF STOMACH AND LARGE INTESTINE OF RABBIT (Lepus cimiculus) IN THEIR MUTUAL 



RELATIONS. 



a. Pyloric portion of stomach. 



b. Dilated commencement of duodenum, receiving 



c. The bile-duct. 



d. Concavity of duodenal loop, within which is contained a large part of 



e. The pancreas, to the duct of which, opening in the lower portion of the ascending limb of the 



loop, this line is drawn. 



f. Portion of pancreas in relation with the spleen and corresponding to the ' tail ' of the organ of 



anthropotomy. 



g. Spleen, with two accessory splenculi. 



