The ligamentum teres connects the umbilicus to which vessel?

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The ligamentum teres hepatis is the fibrous remnant of the fetal umbilical vein. In fetal life, the umbilical vein carries oxygenated blood from the placenta into the liver via the portal system. After birth it closes and becomes a cord that runs within the falciform ligament from the umbilicus to the liver, where it attaches to the left branch of the portal vein at the porta hepatis. This makes the left portal vein the vessel the ligament connects to in the adult. It does not connect to the hepatic artery or the inferior vena cava.