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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A vein that conducts blood from the digestive organs, spleen, pancreas, and gallbladder to the liver.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy A short, wide vein that carries blood to the liver from the organs of the digestive system.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a short vein that carries blood into the liver

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  1. vena
  1. venous blood vessel
  1. vein

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. reniportal
  2. gate-vein
  3. porta
  4. portal
  5. vena portæ
  1. vena lienalis
  2. splenic vein
  3. periportal
  4. peripylephlebitis
  5. pylemphraxis
  1. pylephlebitis
  2. pylethrombosis
  3. gate vein
  4. janitrix
  5. lieno-intestinal
  1. vena gastrica sinistra
  2. vena gastrica-dextra
  3. vena mesenterica
  4. portacaval shunt
  5. pyloric vein
  1. right gastric vein
  2. left gastric vein
  3. mesenteric vein
  4. parumbilical
  5. subhepatic
  1. penicillus

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