Meanings
adjectiveportocaval (not comparable)
alternative portacaval
- not comparableanatomyRelating to the portal vein and the vena cava.
portocaval shunt
2 more examples
portocaval anastomosis
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
Origin
Translations
Spanish portocaval
- portocavalrelating to the portal vein and the vena cava
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