Wide thin-walled blood vessels in the liver. The terminal branches of the hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery empty into the sinusoids where the blood mixes. In mammals they have neither venous or arterial markers. Sinusoids are scattered throughout the parenchyma and appear small and round. [ GOC:cvs ORCiD:0000-0002-2244-7917 http://zfin.org/ZDB-PUB-090422-17 ]
Synonyms: hepatic sinusoids
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- sinusoidal blood vessel endothelium
- hepatic sinusoid
- develops from some subintestinal vein
- part of some trunk vasculature
- part of some liver