| portosystemic | Relating to connections between the portal and systemic venous systems. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| portovenography | Examination of the portal circulation by the use of X-ray films after injection of radiopaque material. (12 Dec 1998) |
| portrait | 1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. "In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature." (Sir J. Reynolds) The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness. 2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; in distinction from an ideal bust or statue. Origin: F, originally p. P. Of portraire to portray. See Portray. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| portraits | Graphic representations, especially of the face, of real persons, usually posed, living or dead. They are pictures whose purpose is the portrayal of an individual or group of individuals, not pictures which merely include people as part of an event or scene. (12 Dec 1998) |
| portress | A female porter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| portuary | A breviary. Origin: Cf. Portass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| portuguese | Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal. Portuguese man-of-war. <zoology> See Physalia. Origin: Cf. F. Portugais, Sp. Portugues, Pg. Portuguez. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Portuguese-Azorean disease | A rare form of hereditary ataxia, characterised by onset in early adult life of progressive, spinocerebellar and extrapyramidal disease with external ophthalmoplegia, rigidity dystonia symptoms, and, often, peripheral amyotrophy; found predominantly in people of Azorean ancestry; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Azorean disease, Portuguese-Azorean disease. Origin: Surnames of two families studied in major descriptions of the disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portulaca | <botany> A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus. Portulaca oleracea is the common purslane. P. Grandiflora is a South American herb, widely cultivated for its showy crimson, scarlet, yellow, or white, ephemeral blossoms. Origin: L, purslane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| portulacaceous | <botany> Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| porus | Synonym: sweat pore. See: opening. Origin: L. Fr. G. Poros, passageway (05 Mar 2000) |
| porus acusticus externus | The orifice of the external acoustic meatus in the tympanic portion of the temporal bone. Synonym: porus acusticus externus, external acoustic foramen, external acoustic pore, external auditory pore, external auditory foramen, orifice of external acoustic meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porus acusticus internus | The inner opening of the internal acoustic meatus on the posterior surface of the petrous part of the temporal bone. Synonym: porus acusticus internus, internal acoustic foramen, internal acoustic pore, auditory pore, internal auditory foramen, orifice of internal acoustic meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porus crotaphytico-buccinatorius | An occasional foramen in the sphenoid bone through which passes the motor portion of the trigeminal nerve; it is formed by ossification of a ligament below and lateral to the foramen ovale. Synonym: Hyrtl's foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porus gustatorius | The minute opening of a taste bud on the surface of the oral mucosa through which the gustatory hairs of the specialised neuroepithelial gustatory cells project. Synonym: porus gustatorius, taste pore. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal hypertension |
Elevated pressure in vasculature associated with liver; may be seen with cirrhosis and may lead to development of varices
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| port-wine stain |
a congenital overabundance of blood vessels beneath the surface of the skin
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| pore |
to study attentively, as in: Before the presentation, she will likely pore over her notes.
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| portal |
Concerning entrance to an organ, especially that through which blood is carried to liver.
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| pore |
The opening to a pilosebaceous unit.
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| POR | the charge for carrying burdens by porters |
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| POR | large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin |
| POR | large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin |
| POR | the role of the head of a government department |
| POR | a case for carrying papers or drawings or maps |
| POR | a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution |
| POR | an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through |
| POR | a window in a ship or airplane |
| POR | pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers |
| POR | a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area |
| POR | marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure |
| POR | a heavy curtain hung across a doorway |