portocaval

adj

portocaval

adj

Etymology From porto- + caval.

1

Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences Relating to the portal vein and the vena cava.

  • portocaval anastomosis
  • portocaval shunt
1 more example
  • He divided extrahepatic portocaval shunts into two types: first, end-to-side shunts, where the portal vein (PV) terminates in the inferior vena cava (IVC), and the second, side-to-side shunts in which there is venous communication between a patent PV and the IVC.2015 July 14, Kalyan Paudel, Eric K. Hoffer, “Transhepatic Embolization of Congenital Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunts with Associated Aneurysms”, in Case Reports in Medicine, volume 2015, →DOI:
Related terms
portosystemic

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