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| colspan="2" |The liver and the veins in connection with it, of a human embryo, twenty-four or twenty-five days old, as seen from the ventral surface. Ductus venosus is visible near center, below heart, in red.
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In the fetus, the ductus venosus connects the left umbilical vein with the inferior vena cava. It is a shunt that allows oxygenated blood from the placenta to bypass the liver and return to the systemic circulation for distribution to the rest of the body.
