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The stellate veins are veins that lie beneath the fibrous tunic of the kidney. They are stellate in arrangement and are derived from the capillary network into which the terminal […]

The straight venules of kidney are branches from the plexuses at the apices of the medullary pyramids formed by the terminations of the vasa recta. They run outward in a […]

Cortical radiate arteries (or cortical radial arteries or interlobular arteries) are renal blood vessels given off at right angles from the side of the arcuate arteries looking toward the cortical […]

The venae stellatae join to form the interlobular veins which pass inward between the rays receive branches from the plexuses around the convoluted tubules and having arrived at the bases […]

The fibroelastic coat of the spleen invests the organ and at the hilum is reflected inward upon the vessels in the form of sheaths. From these sheaths as well as […]

The deep inguinal lymph nodes are located medial to the femoral vein and under the cribriform fascia. There are approximately 3 to 5 deep nodes. The superior-most node is located […]

The prostatic ducts (or prostatic ductules) open into the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra and are lined by two layers of epithelium the inner layer consisting of […]

The intestinal trunk receives the lymph from the stomach and intestine from the pancreas and spleen and from the lower and front part of the liver and empties lymph into […]

The cloaca is a structure in the development of the urinary and reproductive organs.The hind-gut is at first prolonged backward into the body-stalk as the tube of the allantois; but […]

The Müllerian eminence is an epithelium on the ventral part of the cloaca between the orifices of the Wolffian ducts. It appears during the development of the urinary and reproductive […]