See Also: left umbilical vein(medicine)
umbilical part of left branch of portal vein(medicine)
umbilical vein(medicine)
sulcus of umbilical vein(medicine)
left gastroomental vein(medicine)
left suprarenal vein(medicine)
left testicular vein(medicine)
left gastroepiploic vein(medicine)
left colic vein(medicine)
left coronary vein(medicine)

left umbilical vein (medicine)


left umbilical vein
<anatomy, vein> The vein that returns the blood from the placenta to the foetus; traversing the umbilical cord, it enters the foetal body at the umbilicus and passes thence into the liver, where it is joined by the portal vein; its blood then flows by way of the ductus venosus and the inferior vena cava to the right atrium.

Synonym: vena umbilicalis sinistra.