PORTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does portal mean? 

• PORTAL (noun)
  The noun PORTAL has 3 senses:

1. a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)

2. a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet

3. a short vein that carries blood into the liver

  Familiarity information: PORTAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the portals of success

Hypernyms ("portal" is a kind of...):

entrance; entranceway; entree; entry; entryway (something that provides access (to get in or get out))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

portal; portal site

Context example:

a portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc.

Hypernyms ("portal" is a kind of...):

internet site; site; web site; website (a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A short vein that carries blood into the liver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hepatic portal vein; portal; portal vein; vena portae

Hypernyms ("portal" is a kind of...):

vein; vena; venous blood vessel (a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart)

Holonyms ("portal" is a part of...):

portal system (system of veins that carry blood from the abdominal organs to the liver)

 Context examples 

Minimal fibrosis in some portal areas.

(Ishak Score 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Minimal fibrosis in most portal areas.

(Ishak Score 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The part of the pancreas from the point where it crosses the portal vein to the point where it enters the lienorenal ligament.

(Body of the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)

A center within the National Institutes of Health that acts as a portal for grant applications and their review for scientific merit.

(Center for Scientific Review, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of typical or atypical proliferation of biliary epithelial cells in the portal tracts of the liver.

(Ductal or Ductular Proliferation, NCI Thesaurus)

Compared to gemcitabine, this prodrug is able to avoid hydrolysis in enterocytes and the portal circulation thus avoiding first pass metabolism and increasing systemic gemcitabine availability.

(Gemcitabine Prodrug LY2334737, NCI Thesaurus)

He had opened the portal and stood at it, waiting for me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fibrosis extends beyond the portal areas.

(Ishak Score 3, NCI Thesaurus)

With a kick and a blow he freed himself from two others who clung to him, and in a moment he was within the portal with his comrades.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Marked bridging fibrosis (portal to portal and porto-central) is present.

(Ishak Score 4, NCI Thesaurus)