PORTAL HYPERTENSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does portal hypertension mean? 

• PORTAL HYPERTENSION (noun)
  The noun PORTAL HYPERTENSION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PORTAL HYPERTENSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTAL HYPERTENSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

malignant hypertension (severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain)

 Context examples 

It is associated with portal hypertension, scleroderma, and chronic renal failure.

(Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by liver fibrosis, portal hypertension, and renal cysts.

(Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical symptoms include hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, portal hypertension, malabsorption syndrome, and pathologic fractures.

(Aggressive Systemic Mastocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)