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THE HUMAN BODY. 



with them (Fig. 102) would look something like a branch 

 of a tree with apples attached to it by short stalks, repre- 

 sented by the intralobular veins. The blood is finally car- 

 ried, as above pointed out, by the hepatic veins into the 



inferior vena cava. The 

 hepatic artery, a branch 

 of the coeliac axis (p. 211), 

 ends mainly in Glisson's 

 capsule and the walls of 

 the blood-vessels and bile- 

 ducts, but some of its 

 blood reaches the lobular 

 plexuses; it all finally 

 leaves the liver by the 

 hepatic veins. 



The bile-ducts can be 

 readily traced to the pe- 

 riphery of the lobules, 

 and there probably com- 

 municate with a minute 

 network of commencing 

 bile-ducts ramifying in 

 the lobule between the 

 hepatic cells composing 

 it. 



The Pancreas or Sweet- 

 broad. This is an elon- 

 gated soft organ of a 

 ow color, 

 the great 



appendix; AC, ascending, TC, transverse, and curvature of the stomach. 

 PC, descending colon; R, the rectum. . , , , 



Its right end is larger, 



and is embraced by the duodenum (Fig. 103), which there 

 makes a curve to the left. A duct traverses the gland and 

 joins the common bile-duct close to its intestinal opening. 

 The pancreas produces a watery -looking secretion which is 

 of great importance in digestion. 



FIG. 103*. Diagram of abdominal part of 



alimentary canal. C. the cardiac, and P, the -.^ 71 L-i o^ 

 pyloric end of the stomach; 1), the dupde- J 



lying along 



uurn; J, /, the convolutions of the small in- 

 testine : CC, the cascum- with the vermiform 



