portal frame

noun

civil engineering building trades a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway

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portal, portal canal, portal circulation, portal cirrhosis, portal fissure, portal frame, portal hypertension, portal lobule of liver, portal system, portal vein, portal-systemic encephalopathy
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