PORTAL VEIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does portal vein mean? 

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

1. a short vein that carries blood into the liver

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTAL VEIN (noun)

Sense 1

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 vein" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

 Context examples 

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 groove or cleft on the surface of the gallbladder extending from the right portal vein to the gallbladder fossa.

(Fissure of the Gallbladder, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel carrying deoxygenated blood from the gallbladder and the cystic duct into the right branch of the portal vein.

(Cystic Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

The enzymatically synthesized isoform, 1,3-isoform diacylglycerol, is suggested to decrease formation of chylomicrons as well as shunting them directly to the liver through the portal vein where they are oxidized.

(Diacylglycerol, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein running parallel to the superior and inferior pancreatico-duodenal arteries that drains blood from the pancreas and duodenum into the superior mesenteric or portal veins.

(Pancreatico-Duodenal Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called portal vein.

(Hepatic portal vein, NCI Dictionary)

The smallest functional unit of the liver, comprising all of the liver parenchyma supplied by a terminal branch of the portal vein and hepatic artery; typically involves segments of two lobules lying between two terminal hepatic venules.

(Liver Acinus, NCI Thesaurus)