portal circulation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of portal circulation
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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With this hepatic portal circulation, all blood from the alimentary canal passes through the liver.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Such increased pressure in the veins is due, for example, to cirrhosis of the liver which affects the portal circulation, or to mitral stenosis which affects the pulmonary veins.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
Cirrhosis and cancer of the liver may, by interference with the portal circulation, produce dilatation of the veins in the lower third of the esophagus.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
The longest route a portion of blood may take from the moment it leaves the left ventricle to the moment it returns to it, is through the portal circulation.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
The sluggish return of the blood in the inferior vena cava causes primarily a sluggish portal circulation with a passive congestion and enlargement of the liver.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)
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