HEPATIC PORTAL SYSTEM Learning Exercise

Blood flows through the hepatic portal system in a specific sequence. In the exercise below, number the structures according to when blood passes through them. Some of the structures have already been numbered for you.

 

_____ Inferior Vena Cava

_____ Superior Mesenteric, Inferior mesenteric,

and splenic veins

__1__ tiny veins in walls of GI tract

_____ Hepatic portal vein

_____ Liver

 

NOW, make your own flowchart, and rewrite this sequence out in order - this will help you remember the blood pathway!