Stellate veins
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| Vein: Stellate veins | |
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| Latin | venae stellatae renis |
| Gray's | subject #253 1224 |
| Drains from | interlobular arteries |
| Drains to | interlobular veins |
| Dorlands / Elsevier |
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The veins beneath the fibrous tunic of the kidney, stellate veins are stellate in arrangement, and are derived from the capillary network, into which the terminal branches of the interlobular arteries break up. These join to form the interlobular veins, which pass inward between the rays.
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