portal circulation

noun

, Physiology.

First recorded in 1870–75

By mechanical causes which interfere with the portal circulation.

Disturbances of the portal circulation should be first named.

The portal circulation is thus not an independent system, but forms a kind of loop on the systemic circulation.

This hemorrhage is the result of venous congestion caused by some obstruction to the portal circulation.

The obstruction to the portal circulation results also in an enlargement of the spleen.

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