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Definition of Portal
1. Noun. A grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically). "The portals of success"
2. Noun. A site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet. "A portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc."
3. Noun. A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
Group relationships: Portal System
Generic synonyms: Vein, Vena, Venous Blood Vessel
Definition of Portal
1. n. A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
2. a. Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
Definition of Portal
1. Noun. A grandiose and often lavish entrance. ¹
2. Noun. An entrance, entry point, or means of entry. ¹
3. Noun. (context: Internet) A website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet. ¹
4. Noun. (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portal
1. a door, gate, or entrance [n -S] : PORTALED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portal
Literary usage of Portal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Mcd., 1H07, ix, 93) has investigated this problem by injecting washed livers,
and has observed the pressure influences of the hepatic and the portal ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The portal Vein is formed by the junction of the superior mesenteric and splenic
veins, their union taking place in front of the vena cava and behind the ..."
3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"I. In reviewing the subject of portal cirrhosis, it is evident that our ...
The increase in the portal blood pressure is one of the most marked abnormal ..."
4. The Lancet (1842)
"Because the spleen is placed at the very commencement of the second, or portal
system of vessels, and is connected by means of ils vein with the origin of ..."
5. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"They gather the blood from the liver (sent in by the portal vein and hepatic
arteries) and ... Within the liver the portal vein breaks up into capillaries; ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"When death was found to follow so promptly upon portal vein ligation, the question
that arose was whether ligations at different levels would also prove ..."
7. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1859)
"he portal system. The blood which has circulated through the Capillaries of ...
Immediately upon its entrance, the portal vein divides into two branches, ..."
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