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 phrase English is that an attributive adjective alone generally precedes the noun, e.g. "a proud man", whereas a head-initial or head-medial adjective phrase follows its noun, e.g. "a man proud of his children". A predicative adjective (phrase), in contrast, appears outside of the noun phrase that it describes, usually after a linking verb, e.g. "The man is proud of his children". There is a tendency to call a phrase an "adjectival phrase" when that phrase is functioning like an adjective phrase, but is not actually headed by an adjective. For example, in "Mr Clinton is a man of wealth", the prepositional