portal vein
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of portal vein
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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In healthy mice, the team detected 111 metabolites enriched in the hepatic portal vein and 74 in peripheral blood.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
Samples were taken from the hepatic portal vein, which carries blood from the intestine to the liver, and from peripheral blood, which travels from the liver to the heart before circulating through the body.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
The liver and intestines are directly connected via the portal vein, a blood vessel that transports nutrients absorbed in the intestines directly to the liver.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024
The hepatic portal vein delivers materials from these digestive and circulatory organs directly to the liver for processing.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Hepatic abscess may follow on an attack of amoebic dysentery, and is produced either by infection through the portal vein, or by direct infection from the adjacent colon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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