GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The inferior vena cava is a large main vein that carries blood through the liver and back to the heart. Blood leaves your liver through a central vein in each lobule, and then through a hepatic vein, one of several short veins originating within the lobes of the liver as small branches.

Detailed explanation-2: -The hepatic lobules have a central vein at the center of each lobule. These central veins combine to form hepatic veins which then drain into the inferior vena cava and, ultimately back to the heart.

Detailed explanation-3: -The central veins, or hepatic veins (HV) collect the blood and lead it to the vena cava inferior.

Detailed explanation-4: -Blood flows out of the sinusoids into the central vein, removing detoxified substances and metabolic end products. The central vein ultimately reunites with the hepatic vein transporting these substances out of the liver.

Detailed explanation-5: -Central veins are located at the centers of liver lobules. The vicinity of a central vein (unlike a portal area) normally includes little or no connective tissue. Sinusoids open freely into the central vein. The central vein in turn provides a “drain” from the lobule into the hepatic vein, which leads to the vena cava.