Hepatic veins Hepatic veins In human anatomy, the hepatic veins are the veins that drain de-oxygenated blood from the liver into the inferior vena cava. There are usually three upper hepatic veins draining from the left, middle, and right parts of the liver. These are larger than the group of lower hepatic veins that can number from six to twenty. All of the hepatic veins drain into the inferior vena cava. They are one of two sets of veins connected to the liver, the others are the portal veins. The large hepatic veins arise from smaller veins found within the liver, and
Adjective the end of the word, as in Latin: In Celtic languages, however, initial consonant lenition marks the adjective with a feminine singular noun, as in Irish: Often, distinction is made here between attributive and predicative usage. In English, adjectives never agree, and in French, they always agree. In German, they agree only when they are used attributively, and in Hungarian, they agree only when they are used predicatively: Adjective In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.