vitelline vein

anatomy

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In animal development: Circulatory organs
…the early embryo are the vitelline veins, whose branches spread out between the lateral plate mesoderm and the endoderm, especially the endoderm of the yolk sac, when present. On their way to the heart, the vitelline veins pass through the liver and break up into a system of small channels—the…
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