Consider the following pathway: Blood full of nutrients from the digestive system moves through the hepatic portal system to the liver. The hepatic veins then carry blood from the liver to which large vein that carries the blood to the heart?
a. superior vena cava
b. hepatic portal vein
c. inferior vena cava
d. superior mesenteric vein
Ans: c. inferior vena cava
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