Vitelline veins the developing liver and broken up by it into a plexus of small capillary-like vessels termed sinusoids. The vitelline veins give rise to Inferior mesenteric vein, Ciliac trunk The branches conveying the blood to the plexus are named the venae advehentes, and become the branches of the portal vein. The vessels draining the plexus into the sinus venosus are termed the venae revehentes, and form the future hepatic veins. Ultimately the left vena revehens no longer communicates directly with the sinus venosus, but opens into the right vena revehens. The persistent part of the upper venous ring, above the opening
Vasa vasorum and the tunica media, causing them to need a more extensive vasa vasorum. A later method of scanning is optical coherence tomography that also gives 3D imaging. The vasa vasorum are found in large vein and arteries such as the aorta and its branches. These small vessels serve to provide blood supply and nourishment for tunica adventitia and outer parts of tunica media of large vessels. Vasa vasorum The vasa vasorum is a network of small blood vessels that supply the walls of large blood vessels, such as elastic arteries (e.g. aorta) and large veins (e.g. venae cavae). The name