major blood vessel leaving the liver[close window] heterozygous: having different allelic genes at one locus. People who inherit two different alleles, one from each parent, are heterozygotes. Individuals who have thalassemia can inherit a different thalassemic gene from each parent and be heterozygotes, or inherit the same gene from each parent and be homozygous for that mutation. Both of these combinations can cause thalassemia disease, though homozygotes are more likely to have severe disease.[close window
The vessel that carries blood from the liver to the heart.
The blood vessel by which blood leaves the liver.
collects blood from the liver and delivers it to the posterior vena cava
any of the veins that carry the blood received from the hepatic artery and from the hepatic portal vein away from the liver.
A large vessel that receives blood after it has passed through the central veins of the liver lobules.
The vein which drains blood from the liver towards the heart.
There are three hepatic veins: the right, middle, and left hepatic veins drain blood from the liver back toward the heart.
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.
