Bilaterally paired longitudinal vein; the anterior cardinal returns blood from the head, and the posterior cardinal returns it from the trunk; these two vessels join together on each side as the common cardinal vein (duct of Cuvier; misnamed the vitelline vein) that leads across the yolk cell to the heart's sinus venosus. [ ORCiD:0000-0002-2244-7917 GOC:cvs http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-961014-576 ]
Synonyms: duct of Cuvier
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- vein
- embryonic structure
- common cardinal vein
- part of some trunk vasculature
- part of some cardinal system