Vitelline veins

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 stage	9
Days	28
Identifiers
Latin	vena vitellina
FMA	70305
	Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

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

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