umbilical vein

NOUN
  1. a vein in the umbilical cord; returns nutrient blood from the placenta to the fetus
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  • The UVC courses from umbilical vein to left portal vein to ductus venosus to either hepatic vein or IVC and then into right atrium.
  • —The visceral veins are the two vitelline or omphalomesenteric veins bringing the blood from the yolk-sac, and the two umbilical veins returning the blood from the placenta; these four veins open close together into the sinus venosus. V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System
  • The term “reversed perfusion” is used to describe this scenario because blood enters the acardiac/acephalic twin through reversed flow through its umbilical artery and exits through the umbilical vein, which is opposite to the normal blood supply of the fetus. Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord
  • Blood is carried to the allantoic sac by the two allantoic or umbilical arteries, which are continuous with the primitive aortæ, and after circulating through the allantoic capillaries, is returned to the primitive heart by the two umbilical veins. I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
  • Fetal cortisol and estriol were measured in the umbilical vein plasma at delivery.
  • The cerebral and spinal veins, the veins of the cancellated tissue of bone, the pulmonary veins, and the umbilical vein and its branches, are also destitute of valves. V. Angiology. Introduction
  • “Reversed arterial perfusion” is used to describe this condition because blood enters the abnormal twin through the umbilical artery (which usually carries blood away from the fetus back to the placenta) and exits through the umbilical vein, which normally carries blood from the placenta to the fetus. Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord
  • The vitelline vessels and duct, together with the right umbilical vein, undergo atrophy and disappear; and thus the cord, at birth, contains a pair of umbilical arteries and one (the left) umbilical vein. I. Embryology. 11. Development of the Fetal Membranes and Placenta
  • The upper left quadrant is filled with the right lobe of the liver and the gallbladder, and the falciform ligament and ligamentum teres (‘obliterated’ umbilical vein) can be seen.
  • There was a reversal of end-diastolic blood flow seen in the ductus venosus and umbilical artery and pulsatile flow seen in the umbilical vein. Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
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