Tags: Anatomical Structure, Vein.
This page refers to the veins that drain deoxygenated blood from the liver. For the vein that drains nutrient-rich blood from the GI tract and the spleen into the liver see hepatic portal vein.In human anatomy the hepatic veins are the blood vessels that drain de-oxygenated blood from the liver and blood cleaned by the liver (from the stomach pancreas small intestine and colon) into the inferior vena cava.