0 a Latin word meaning "relating to veins" (= tubes that carry blood to the heart from other parts of the body), used in medical names and descriptions --
In normal circumstances 20-30% of the well-oxygenated blood from the placenta gets shunted through the ductus venosus to the left side of the heart.
The presence of an inferior sinus venosus defect was recognized only in the operating room.
In this poster presentation the anatomy of the portal vein system, the ductus venosus and umbilical vein is demonstrated.
In older human fetal hearts the staining is not present anymore in the sinus venosus.
Until recently, it was commonly believed that the shunting of oxygenated blood through the ductus venosus was crucial to fetal development.
The blood velocity profile in the ductus venosus inlet expressed by the mean/maximum velocity ratio.
The ductus venosus now forms a continuation of the umbilical vein towards the subcardial inferior vena cava.
Effects of hypoxia and decreasing umbilical -ow on liver and ductus venosus blood -ows in fetal lambs.
