hepatic vein

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Any of the veins that carry from the liver the blood collected from the hepatic artery and portal vein and that terminate in three large veins, designated right, middle, and left, that open into the inferior vena cava below the diaphragm.

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Rather than downing a handful of pills, I planned to take my life by opening a vein in each wrist.
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The length of the fibre, moreover, cannot be determined with any absolute certainty from the thickness of the vein.
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The specimen of this breccia is attached to a plate of granular quartz, and may possibly have been part of a vein.
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