After birth all the venous blood entering the liver passes through the portal vein.
This creature was discovered in the portal vein and bladder of man by Bilharz, of Cairo, after whom it was named.
The entozon which by its presence in the blood causes the disease chyluria also inhabits the portal vein.
In man it has been found to occupy the bile-ducts, the portal vein, and abscesses beneath the skin.
Duvals case appears to be genuine, but the occurrence of the worm in the portal vein was accidental.
Occasionally, the occurrence of thrombosis of the portal vein adds an embarrassing and dangerous complication.
The blood which is brought to it by the portal vein, being venous, is not fit to nourish it.
The most important causes of hepatic abscess exist in the state of the portal vein, hepatic artery, and the hepatic veins.
The comparative frequency with which the liver is entered indicates that the portal vein is the favorite route of migration.
Very rarely, organized exudations of the peritoneum may be so situated as to compress the portal vein.
portal vein n.
A wide short vein that is formed by the superior mesenteric and splenic veins behind the pancreas, ascends in front of the inferior vena cava, and divides into right and left branches that ramify within the liver. Also called hepatic portal vein.