0 the vein (= tube) that carries blood, containing substances obtained from food, from the intestines to the liver:
There it joins with the left branch of the portal vein.
Rare congenital anomaly of the portal vein.
Congenital absence of the portal vein.
The lungs and hepatic portal vein of groups of 5 recipients were examined for the presence of schistosomula on days 4, 14 and 40 after injection using normal procedures.
Blood enters via the hepatic artery or portal vein, and percolates through the narrow sinusoidal channels before exiting through the central veins.
It may be that agenesis of the portal vein simply favours the clinical expression of that abnormality.
Changes of peak velocities of flow in the portal vein occurring with respiration were more pronounced in these patients.
The islets are infused into the portal vein so that they lodge in the liver.
