Vitelline veins

Vitelline veins
The liver and the veins in connection with it, of a human embryo, twenty-four or twenty-five days old, as seen from the ventral surface. (Vitelline veins visible at center bottom.)
Details
Carnegie stage9
Days28
Identifiers
Latinvena vitellina
FMA70305
Anatomical terminology

The vitelline veins are veins that drain blood from the yolk sac[1] and the gut tube[2] during gestation.

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