The common cardinal veins, also known as the ducts of Cuvier,
ZFIN: Anatomical Structure: common cardinal vein
are veins that drain into the sinus venosus during prenatal development
Prenatal development () includes the development of the embryo and of the fetus during a viviparous animal's gestation. Prenatal development starts with fertilization, in the germinal stage of embryonic development, and continues in fetal devel ...
.Wolffian bodies
The mesonephros ( el, middle kidney) 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 ...
, and are called cardinal veins. Part of the left common cardinal vein persists after birth to form the coronary sinus.
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". Cuvier ...
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Embryology of cardiovascular system
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