Stellate veins

Stellate veins
Details
Drains from Interlobular arteries
Drains to Interlobular veins
Identifiers
Latin Venae stellatae renis
TA A08.1.04.006
FMA 71635

Anatomical terminology

The stellate veins are veins that lie beneath the fibrous tunic of the kidney. They 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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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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