. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . Terminal bile-poucli, Double gall-bladder of a Giraffe fundus. It was attached in the usual position to the under partof the undivided liver, having a covering of peritoneum overthree-fourths of its surface. It was divided throughout its lengthby a middle vertical septum, fig. 367. The lining membrane ofeach chamber was smooth; they communicated with the com-mencement of a single cystic duct, the terminal orifices admittingfreely the blunt end of a common probe and being protected bya valvular fold. In two males, subsequently d
. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . Terminal bile-poucli, Double gall-bladder of a Giraffe fundus. It was attached in the usual position to the under partof the undivided liver, having a covering of peritoneum overthree-fourths of its surface. It was divided throughout its lengthby a middle vertical septum, fig. 367. The lining membrane ofeach chamber was smooth; they communicated with the com-mencement of a single cystic duct, the terminal orifices admittingfreely the blunt end of a common probe and being protected bya valvular fold. In two males, subsequently dissected, therewas not a vestige of a gall-bladder, but the bile was conveyed LIVEK OF MAMMALIA. 481 by a rather wide hepatic duct to the duodenum. I conclude,therefore, that the absence of the gall-bladder is the rule, or normalcondition; and that the Giraffe in this respect, as in the structureof its horns, has a nearer affinity to the Deer than to the Ante-lopes. In these and all hollow-horned Ruminants, a gall-bladderis present; as it is, also, in Moschus and Tragulus. In the Cam
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