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Show 1 9 0 5 .] ANATOMY OF THE LEATHERY TURTLE. 3 2 1 the right anterior abdominal vein may be quite insignificant, not more than a quarter the size of that of the left side. Within the liver there is an open communication between the anterior abdominal and hepatic portal veins. Text-fig. 72. Dermochelys coriacea, left kidney with its associated veins and arteries. aff.r.v. afferent renal vein, ao. aorta, eff.r.v. efferent renal vein, il. ilium, il.v. chief affluent of afferent renal vein, l.a.ahd.v. left anterior abdominal vein, obt.v. obturator vein, ur. uretur, v.c.i. vena cava inferior. The efferent renal veins are in no way peculiar. They run forward, one on either side, along the median borders of the kidneys, and at their anterior extremities unite to form the vena |