Fig. 305. — Lepus cuniculus. The stomach, duodenum, posterior portion of rectum 

 and liver (in outline) with their arteries veins, and ducts. A. the cceliac artery of 

 another specimen (both x f). The gullet is cut through and the stomach some- 

 what displaced backwards to show the ramifications of the cceliac artery {cce. a) ; 

 the duodenum is spread out to the right of the subject to show the pancreas 

 (f>n); the branches of the bile duct (c. b. d) , portal vein (/>. v) and hepatic 

 artery (/:. a), are supposed to be traced some distance into the various lobes of 

 the liver, a. in. a, anterior mesenteric artery; can, caudate lobe of liver, with 

 its artery, vein, and bile duct; c. b, d, common bile duct; cd. st, cardiac portion 

 of stomach; c. il. a, common iliac artery; c&. a, cceliac artery; cy a, cystic 

 artery; cy. d, cystic duct: d. ao, dorsal aorta; du, proximal, and dte' , distal 

 limbs of duodenum; du a, duodenal artery; du. ha, in (A), duodeno-hepatic 

 artery; g. a, gastric artery and vein; g, b, gall-bladder; h. a, hepatic artery; 

 b. d, left bile duct; /. c, left central lobe of liver, with its artery, vein, and bile 

 duct; I. g. v, lieno-gastric vein; /. /, left lateral lobe of liver, with its artery, 

 vein, and bile duct; ms, branch of n esenteric artery and vein to duodenum; 

 vis. r, mesorectnm; m v, chief mesenteric vein; a?s, cesophagus; p. in. a, 

 posterior mesenteric artery; / nt. v, posterior mesenteric vein; pn, pancreas; 

 pn. d, pancreatic duct; p r\ portal vein; py. si, pyloric portion of stomach; 

 ret, rectum; r c, right central lobs of liver, with artery, vein, and bile duct; 

 spg, Spigelian lobe of liver, u-uh its artery, vein, and bile duct; spi t spleen; sp. a, 

 splenic artery. (From Parker's Zootomy.) 



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