| portal | 1. A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. "Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone." (Milton) "From out the fiery portal of the east." (Shak) 2. The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment. By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church. 3. <engineering> The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces. 4. A prayer book or breviary; a portass. <engineering> Portal bracing, a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge. Origin: OF. Portal, F. Portail, LL. Portale, fr. L. Porta a gate. See Port a gate. <anatomy> Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery. Portal is applied to other veins which break up into capillaries; as, the renal portal veins in the frog. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| portal canals | Connective tissue spaces in the substance of the liver that are occupied by preterminal ramifications of the bile ducts, portal vein, and hepatic artery, as well as nerves and lymphatics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal circulation | Circulation of blood to the liver from the small intestine, the right half of the colon, and the spleen via the portal vein; sometimes specified as the hepatic portal circulation, more generally, any part of the systemic circulation in which blood draining from the capillary bed of one structure flows through a larger vessel(s) to supply the capillary bed of another structure before returning to the heart; e.g., the hypothalamohypophyseal portal system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal cirrhosis | Synonym: Laennec's cirrhosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal fissure | A transverse fissure on the visceral surface of the liver between the caudate and quadrate lobes, lodging the portal vein, hepatic artery, hepatic nerve plexus, hepatic ducts, and lymphatic vessels. Synonym: caudal transverse fissure, portal fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal hypertension | Any increase in the portal vein (in the liver) pressure due to anatomic or functional obstruction (for example alcoholic cirrhosis) to blood flow in the portal venous system. Indicators of portal hypertension are: oesophageal varices, haemorrhoids, enlarged veins on the anterior abdominal wall (caput Medusae) and ascites (fluid within the abdominal cavity). (27 Sep 1997) |
| portal hypertension: classification | <radiology> Presinusoidal, extrahepatic: portal vein obstruction (extrinsic compression, phlebitis, OC, coagulopathy, tumour invasion, pancreatitis, neonatal omphalitis), dynamic: traumatic/neoplastic arterioportal fistula, segmental portal hypertension: splenic/superior mesenteric vein occlusion, intrahepatic (obstruction of portal venules): congenital hepatic fibrosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, sarcoid, myelofibrosis, schistosomiasis, idiopathic noncirrhotic fibrosis, Wilson disease, reticuloendotheliosis, Felty syndrome, chronic malaria, toxic fibrosis (arsenic, copper, PVC vapors) sinusoidal, cirrhosis, sclerosing cholangitis postsinusoidal, Budd-Chiari syndrome, constrictive pericarditis, congestive heart failure (12 Dec 1998) |
| portal hypophysial circulation | A capillary network that carries hypophyseotropic hormones from the hypothalamus, where they are secreted into blood, to their sites of action in the anterior hypophysis. See: portal circulation, hypophysis, hypothalamus. Synonym: hypophyseoportal system, hypophysial portal circulation, hypophysial portal system, hypophysioportal system, hypothalamohypophysial portal circulation, hypothalamohypophysial portal system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal lobule of liver | A conceptual unit of the liver, emphasizing its exocrine function in bile secretion, which comprises a roughly triangular shaped cross-sectional area with a portal canal at its centre and three or more venae centrales hepatis at its periphery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal pressure | The venous pressure measured in the portal vein. (12 Dec 1998) |
| portal pyaemia | Suppurative pylephlebitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal system | A system of vessels in which blood, after passing through one capillary bed, is conveyed through a second set of capillaries before it returns to the systemic circulation. It pertains especially to the hepatic portal system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| portal triad | Branches of the portal vein, hepatic artery, and the biliary ducts bound together in the perivascular fibrous capsule or portal tract as they ramify within the substance of the liver. Synonym: hepatic triad, triad. (05 Mar 2000) |
| portal vein | <anatomy, vein> A large vein that carries blood from the stomach and intestines to the liver. (09 Oct 1997) |
| portal-systemic anastomoses | Naturally-occurring venous communications between tributaries of the portal venous system and tributaries of the systemic venous system. The major portal-systemic anastomoses include: 1) oesophageal branches of left gastric vein with oesophageal veins, 2) superior rectal vein with middle and inferior rectal veins, 3) paraumbilical veins with subcutaneous veins of anterior abdominal wall, 4) retroperitoneal veins with venous branches of veins of the colon and bare area of the liver, and 5) a patent ductus venosus connecting left branch of portal vein to inferior vena cava (rare). These anastomoses are important clinically, providing collateral circulation during portal obstruction or hypertension, at which time they may become varicose. See: caput medusae, oesophageal varices, haemorrhoids. Surgically-created communications between the portal vein and the inferior vena cava or their tributaries, to relieve portal hypertension. Synonym: portacaval anastomoses. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Portasystemic Shunt, Portosystemic Shunt, Shunt, Surgical Portasystemic, Shunt, Surgical Portosystemic, Surgical Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical Portosystemic Shunt, Portasystemic Shunts, Portasystemic Shunts, Surgical, Portosystemic Shunts, Shunt, Portasystemic
Synonyms : Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic Portasystemic, Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic, Transjugular Intrahepatic Portasystemic Shunt
Synonyms : Hepatic Portoenterostomies, Portoenterostomies, Hepatic
Synonyms : Portographies, Splenoportographies
Synonyms : Portrait
| portacaval shunt |
shunt that is created surgically between the portal vein and the inferior vena cava so that blood from the abdominal organs can bypass the liver
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a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); "the portals of the cathedral"; "the portals of heaven"; "the portals of success" portal site: a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; "a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc." portal vein: a short vein that carries blood into the liver
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| portal hypertension |
increase in blood pressure in the veins of the portal system caused by obstruction in the liver (often associated with alcoholic cirrhosis), causing enlargement of the spleen and collateral veins
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| portal system |
system of veins that carry blood from the abdominal organs to the liver
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| portal vein |
a short vein that carries blood into the liver
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| port | transfer data from one computer to another via a cable that links connecting ports |
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| port | on the left-hand side of a vessel or aircraft when facing forward |
| port | a battle in the Chino-Japanese war (1894) |
| port | Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament |
| port | small shrub of southern and western Australia having pinkish to rosy purple tubular flowers |
| port | Australian cypress pine having globular cones |
| port | capital and chief port of Mauritius |
| port | the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea |
| port | any port where a ship stops except its home port |
| port | a port where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise |
| port | the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad |
| port | large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet |