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            <p type="caption">
              <s>A—THE “BEGINNING.” B—THE “END.” C—THE “HEAD.” D—THE “TAIL.”
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              E—TRANSVERSE VEIN.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>A
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              vena cumulata
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              has a “beginning,” an “end,” a “head,” and a
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              “tail,” just as a
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              vena profunda.
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              </s>
              <s> Moreover, a
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              vena cumulata,
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              and likewise
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              a
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              vena dilatata,
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              are often cut through by a transverse
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              vena profunda.
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              </s>
            </p>
            <p type="main">
              <s>Stringers (
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              fibrae
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              )
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              , which are little veins, are classified into
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              fibrae trans­
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              versae, fibrae obliquae
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              which cut the vein obliquely,
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              fibrae sociae,
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              fibrae dilatatae,
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              and
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              fibrae incumbentes.
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              </s>
              <s> The
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              fibra transversa
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              crosses
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              the vein; the
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              fibra obliqua
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              crosses the vein obliquely; the
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              fibra socia
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              joins
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              with the vein itself; the
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              fibra dilatata,
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              like the
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              vena dilatata,
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              penetrates
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              through it; but the
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              fibra dilatata,
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              as well as the
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              fibra profunda,
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              is usually
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              found associated with a vein.</s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>The
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              fibra incumbens
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              does not descend as deeply into the earth as the
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              other stringers, but lies on the vein, as it were, from the surface to the
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              hangingwall or footwall, from which it is named
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              Subdialis.
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              </s>
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            <p type="main">
              <s>In truth, as to direction, junctions, and divisions, the stringers are not
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              different from the veins.
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