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  Caption      = The [[liver]] and the [[veins]] in connection with it, of a human [[embryo]], twenty-four or twenty-five days old, as seen from the ventral surface. (Vitelline veins visible at center bottom.) |
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==Overview==

The '''vitelline veins''' are veins which drain blood from the [[yolk sac]].

==Path==
They run upward at first in front, and subsequently on either side of the [[intestinal canal]]. 

They unite on the [[ventral]] aspect of the canal, and beyond this are connected to one another by two anastomotic branches, one on the dorsal, and the other on the ventral aspect of the [[duodenal]] portion of the [[intestine]], which is thus encircled by two [[venous rings]]; into the middle or dorsal anastomosis the [[superior mesenteric vein]] opens. 

The portions of the veins above the upper ring become interrupted by the developing [[liver]] and broken up by it into a plexus of small capillary-like vessels termed [[sinusoids]]. 

==Derivatives==
The branches conveying the blood to this plexus are named the [[venae advehentes]], and become the branches of the [[portal vein]].

The vessels draining the plexus into the sinus venosus are termed the [[venae revehentes]], and form the future [[hepatic veins]]. Ultimately the left vena revehens no longer communicates directly with the sinus venosus, but opens into the right vena revehens. 

The persistent part of the upper venous ring, above the opening of the superior mesenteric vein, forms the trunk of the [[portal vein]].

==Additional images==
<gallery>
 Image:Gray18.png|Chick embryo of thirty-three hours’ incubation, viewed from the dorsal aspect. X 30.
 Image:Gray31.png|Model of human embryo 1.3 mm. long.
 Image:Gray460.png|Head of chick embryo of about thirty-eight hours’ incubation, viewed from the ventral surface. X 26.
 Image:Gray461.png|Diagram to illustrate the simple tubular condition of the heart.
 Image:Gray1088.png|Liver with the septum transversum. Human embryo 3 mm. long.
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==External links==
* {{EmbryologyTemple|Heart98/heart97a/sld020}}
* {{GPnotebook|127533117}}
* {{EmbryologyUNC|cardev|009}}
* {{EmbryologyUNC|cardev|016}}


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[[Category:Embryology]]

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