Paraumbilical veins

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Vein: Paraumbilical veins
Latin	venae paraumbilicales
Gray's	subject #174 682
Dorlands/Elsevier	v_05/12851238

In the course of the ligamentum teres of the liver and of the middle umbilical ligament, small veins (parumbilical) are found which establish an anastomosis between the veins of the anterior abdominal wall and the portal, hypogastric, and iliac veins.

The best marked of these small veins is one which commences at the umbilicus and runs backward and upward in, or on the surface of, the ligamentum teres between the layers of the falciform ligament to end in the left portal vein.

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