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existence (Anamnia), making use of its branchial vessels for pur- 

 poses of respiration, the entire allantois, in the case of the Am- 



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Fig. 242.- 



-Diagram oe the Embeyonic Vasculak System. 

 (The portal systems are not shown. ) 



A, A, dorsal aorta ; RA , MA , right and left roots of the aorta, which arise from 

 the branchial vessels, Ab, by means of the col]_ecting trunks, S, S^ ; c, c^, 

 the carotids ; Sb, subclavian artery ; KL, gill-clefts ; Si, sinus venosus ; A, 

 atrium ; V, ventricle ; B, trunous arteriosus ; Vm, vitelline veins ; Am, 

 vitelline arteries ; Ic, Ic, common iliac arteries ; E, E, external iliac arteries ; 

 ylH, allantoic (hypogastric) arteries; Acd, caudal artery; VC, HC, anterior, 

 and posterior cardinal veins ; Sb^, subclavian vein ; D, precaval veins (ductus 

 Cuvierii), into which the anterior and posterior cardinals open. 



phibia, giving rise to the bladder. In the Aniniota, which from 

 the first breathe by means of lungs, a modification and reduction of 



