Hepatic Portal Veins

Question 1

Portal Venous System

Answer 1

These vessels connect one bed of capillaries to another, DO NOT transport blood back to the heart
Found only in the liver and pituitary gland

Question 2

Hepatic Portal System of veins

Answer 2

Connect capillary beds of the stomach, intestines, spleen and pancrease to those in the liver
Processing all the blood finally in the liver

Question 3

Superior Mesenteric Vein

Answer 3

Drain small intestine, cecum, and the large intestine, to about mid point of the transverse colon

Question 4

Inferior Mesenteric Vein

Answer 4

Drains remainder of the colon and rectum

Passes behind the pancreas and connects with the Splenic Vein

Question 5

Splenic vein

Answer 5

Joined by the interior mesenteric vein at the liver The splenic vein passes behind the stomach

Question 6

The hepatic portal vein

Answer 6

Formed by the union of the superior mesenteric, inferior mesenteric and splenic veins.
Receives right and left gastric veins from the stomach
Divides into many branches in the liver

Question 7

Hepatic Veins

Answer 7

Drain the liver and empty into the inferior vena cava as it passes through the diaphragm.