Cystic vein

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Vein: Cystic vein
The portal vein and its tributaries.
Latin vena cystica
Gray's subject #174 682
Artery Cystic artery
Dorlands/Elsevier v_05/12850070

The cystic vein drains the blood from the gall-bladder, and, accompanying the cystic duct, usually ends in the right branch of the portal vein.

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