The common cardinal veins, also known as the ducts of Cuvier,
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are veins that drain into the sinus venosus
The sinus venosus is a large quadrangular cavity which precedes the atrium on the venous side of the chordate heart.
In mammals, the sinus venosus exists distinctly only in the embryonic heart where it is found between the two venae cavae; i ...
during embryonic development
In developmental biology, animal embryonic development, also known as animal embryogenesis, is the developmental stage of an animal embryo. Embryonic development starts with the fertilization of an egg cell (ovum) by a sperm, sperm cell (spermat ...
.anterior cardinal vein
The anterior cardinal veins (precardinal veins) contribute to the formation of the internal jugular veins and together with the common cardinal vein form the superior vena cava.
The anastomosis between the two anterior cardinal veins develops int ...
and a posterior cardinal vein
The posterior cardinal veins or postcardinal veins join with the corresponding right and left cardinal veins to form the left common cardinal veins, which empty in the sinus venosus. In the development of a human embryo, most of the posterior card ...
on each side.Wolffian bodies
The mesonephros () is one of three excretory organs that develop in vertebrates. It serves as the main excretory organ of aquatic vertebrates and as a temporary kidney in reptiles, birds, and mammals. The mesonephros is included in the Wolffian b ...
, and are called cardinal veins. Part of the left common cardinal vein persists after birth to form the coronary sinus
The coronary sinus () is the largest vein of the heart. It drains over half of the deoxygenated blood from the heart muscle into the right atrium. It begins on the backside of the heart, in between the left atrium, and left ventricle; it begi ...
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Additional images
File:Gray54.png, Figure obtained by combining several successive sections of a human embryo of about the fourth week.
File:Gray55.png, Upper part of celom of human embryo of 6.8 mm., seen from behind.
File:Gray464.png, Dorsal surface of heart of human embryo of thirty-five days.
See also
* Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
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Embryology of cardiovascular system
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