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The hepatic portal system basically consists of the hepatic portal artery, responsible for taking the products of digestion from the small intestine to the liver, where they are broken down further, cleaned of any microbes, and sent to all the body cells via the hepatic portal vein.
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What is unusual about the hepatic portal vein?
The hepatic portal vein in frogs is unusual in that it is divided into two portals, the hepatic and the renal. In higher vertebrates, the hepatic portal system is the only one present.
What vessels bring blood to liver?
bawbeg vessel
What is a hepatic triad and what does it consists of?
A portal triad is comprised of a hepatic artery, a hepatic portal vein and a bile duct. There is also a nerve that accompanies each triad.
What is A vein that sends blood to hepatic capillaries?
hepatic portal vein
This carries blood from the digestive system to another set of capillaries in the liver?
hepatic portal system
Name the blood vessel that carries digested food to the liver?
hepatic portal vein
How is the blood from the alimentary canal returned to the heart?
Through the hepatic portal vein, hepatic vein and vena cava.
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 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 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.
Is there any other portal vein in your body except Hepatic portal vein?
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What is the circulatory route called that runs from the digestive tract to the liver?
It is called the hepatic portal circulation. A portal system is a system of blood vessels that begin in capillaries and end in capillaries without passing through the heart. The hepatic portal system begins in the capillaries in the digestive tract wall and ends in the capillaries in the liver.
