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Vessel that transports nutrients to the liver?
An artery carries blood to the liver, not a vein. The hepatic artery.Maybe you meant to ask which vein receives nutrient-rich blood from the small intestine. That would be the superior mesenteric vein. But it doesn't go to the liver.
What vessels bring blood to liver?
bawbeg vessel
What rich material processed by the liver would the blood in the hepatic portal vein contain?
Nutrients are the rich material carried by the hepatic portal vein to the liver and then to the heart. The liver receives about seventy-five percent of its blood through the hepatic portal vein.
Name the blood vessel that carries digested food to the liver?
hepatic portal vein
What supplys the blood to the liver?
The liver receives a dual blood supply from the hepatic portal vein and hepatic arteries. Hepatic portal vein gets it a food supply which comes from digestive canal.
What major vessels take blood to hepatic portal vein?
Gastrosplenic Vein joins the Superior Mesenteric Vein and takes blood to Hepatic Portal Vein and delivers blood to liver.
What is porta hepatis?
Visceral surface of the liver where the portal vein & hepatic vein meet
This carries blood from the digestive system to another set of capillaries in the liver?
hepatic portal system
The liver receives blood from what two sources?
from hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery
Which vein carries nutrient-rich blood from the digestive system to the liver?
The liver is connected to two blood vessels, one called the hepatic artery and the other the portal vein. The portal vein carries nutrients digested from the gastro intestinal track.See the related links for more information.
What organs blood flow directly to portal vein?
The hepatic portal vein carries blood (and absorbed nutrients) from the small intestine to the liver.
What 2 organs are connected by the hepatic portal vein?
the intestine and the liver. :)
