portal fissure

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A transverse fissure on the visceral surface of the liver between the caudate and quadrate lobes, lodging the portal vein, hepatic artery, hepatic nerve plexus, hepatic ducts, and lymphatic vessels.caudal transverse fissure

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How to use portal fissure in a sentence

But both sides of this American fissure create a life lived less than fully.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The moment where they enter the spirit portal symbolizes their evolution from being friends to being a couple.
Yep, Korra and Asami Went in the Spirit Portal and Probably Kissed|Melissa Leon|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, the communion conundrum highlights the first visible fissure in the church of Francis.
The Great Divide Facing Pope Francis That Only Catholics Understand|Barbie Latza Nadeau|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side.
Fighting Back With Faith: Inside the Yezidis’ Iraqi Temple|Michael Luongo|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Over the next eight years, the rupture would fissure across every state and territory in the Union.
The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics|Michael Wolraich|July 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The first subject chosen by her for a picture was the "Portal of the Church of the Magdalene."
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Beside autocratic kingship it shines with a white light; it is obviously the portal of the future.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
How can it have happened that terms are still wanting to express the portal of all the sciences?
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Nevertheless she had to pass through the dark portal of death before she was assumed, body and soul, into heaven.
Mary, Help of Christians|Various