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What is the differences between the origin of hepatic portal vein in the pig and in the human?
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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 blood vessel lies between the intestines and the liver?
hepatic portal vein
What is hepatic portal?
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.
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
What is the hepatic portal vein?
the vessel that carries blood between the intestinal capillaries and the sinusoids of the liver.
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.
What are the PORTAL systems in the human body?
1) Hepatic Portal Vein 2) Renal Portal System 3) Hypothalamic-Hypophyseal Portal System not so sure about number 2 :P
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.
