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Definition of Hepatic vein

1. Noun. A vein that drains the liver; empties into the vena cava.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatic Vein

Literary usage of Hepatic vein

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"straight vein, which runs through its centre, to open at its base into one of the radicles of the hepatic vein. Between the cells are also the minute ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"It is composed of the ramifications of the portal vein, of the portal capillaries, the hepatic vein, the hepatic artery, the hepatic duct, of secreting ..."

3. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"Sections of the branches of the hepatic vein formed by the union of ... (hepatic) vein, and secondly of radiating columns of cells filling up the radiating ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"... of the portal vein, hepatic artery and bile- duct running in Glisson's capsule. Sections of the branches of the hepatic vein formed by the union of ..."

5. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"The center of a lobule holds the hepatic vein, which arises as an abrupt widening from the confluence of the capillaries. It is surrounded by a very small ..."

6. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1846)
"2, represents a longitudinal section of a lobule with ramifications of the hepatic vein: and Fig. ... hepatic vein. 2,2,2. Lobules, each containing an ..."

7. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"hepatic vein.—The branches of the hepatic vein run in channels, which are situated between the portal canals (fig. 217), and in consequence of the small ..."

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