1907.] 



STRUCTURE OF THE MAMMAL GALIDICTIS. 



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as follows : — On the left side, shortly behind the liver,]an important 

 vein enters the postcaval. This is composed by the union of three 

 principal trunks ; the most anterior of these is mainly fed by the 

 body- wall, but it receives also the left suprarenal vein. The second 

 affluent is the renal vein ; the third and last is the ovarian vein, 

 which also receives a small supplementary renal vein and a branch 

 from the parietes. On the right side of the body these veins are 

 all separate and enter the postcaval as separate veins. They are 

 thus grouped : the most anterior vein is a lumbar^vein receiving 

 a suprarenal branch. This enters the postcaval symmetrically 

 with the large compound vein of the left side. 



Text-%. 213. 



v.c 



The principal branches of the Postcaval Vein of Galidictis striata. 



K. Kidnej's. L. Lumbar veins, ov. Ovarian vein. Sup. Suprarenal bodies. 

 V.C. Postcaval vein. 



Below this is the renal vein, and below this again a supple- 

 mentary renal vein which also receives branches from the parietes. 

 Much fui'ther down the postcaval vein is the entrance of the 

 right ovarian vein. The only remaining veins before the bifur- 

 cation of the postcaval posteriorly are the right and left lumbar 



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