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THE LIYEE. 



enter the liver at the transverse fissure, have a totally different course, 

 arrangement and distribution from those of the hepatic vein. Within the 

 liver the branches of these three vessels lie together in certain canals, called 



Fig. 609. 



Fig. 609. INJECTED TWIG OF A HEPATIC VEIN WITH SUBLOBULAR VEINS PASSING INTO 

 THE HEPATIC LOBULES (from Sappey). 



1, small sublobular hepatic vein ; 2, intralobular veins passing into the base of the 

 lobules ; 3, their smaller subdivisions; 4, capillary network of communication with the 

 extreme ramifications of the vena porlso. 



Fig. 610. 



Fig. 610. CROSS SECTION OP A LOBULE OP THE HUMAN LIVER, IN WHICH THE CAPILLARY 

 NETWORK BETWEEN THE PORTAL AND HEPATIO VEINS HAS BEEN FULLS? INJECTED (from 

 Sappey). ^ 



1, section of the intralobular vein ; 2, its smaller branches collecting blood from the 

 capillary network ; 3, interlobular branches of the vena portse with their smaller ramifi- 

 cations passing inwards towards the capillary network in the substance of the lobule. 



