Describe blood flow through the hepatic portal circulation
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The splenic, gastric, superior mesenteric, and inferior mesenteric veins merge and drain into a vein that enters the liver, the hepatic portal vein. This vein branches extensively in the liver to form capillary beds creating the hepatic portal system. The processed blood exits the liver by the hepatic vein and joins the rest of the blood in the systemic circuit in the inferior vena cava.
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