It also supplies an articular branch which enters the hip-joint through the acetabular notch, ramifies in the fat at the bottom of the acetabulum and sends a twig along the ligament of head of femur ( ligamentum teres ) to the head of the femur.
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The best marked of these small veins is one which commences at the umbilicus and runs backward and upward in, or on the surface of, the round ligament ( ligamentum teres ) between the layers of the falciform ligament to end in the left portal vein.
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The " ductus arteriosus " normally closes within one or two days of birth, leaving the " ligamentum arteriosum ", while the umbilical vein and " ductus venosus " usually closes within two to five days after birth, leaving, respectively, the liver's " ligamentum teres " and " ligamentum venosus ".
