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Show 1904.] ANATOMY OF THE LACERTILIA. 17 four vessels emerging from the parietes on the left side of the vertebral column : these have just been referred to. This longitudinal trunk, after giving off the four gastrohepatic vessels, divides posteriorly into two branches (A, in text-fig. 5), which run Text-fig. 5. Ant. Aid., anterior abdominal; A, origin of G, gastric branch of portal; L, liver; Pv., portal vein; St., stomach. side by side, and are connected by cross-anastomoses. One of these branches joins the general portal system ; the other enters the anterior abdominal vein just where it.- receives the portal vein. P roc . Z ool. Soc.- 1904, V ol. II. No. II. 2 |
