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adjectiverevehent (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyCarrying away from an organ or structure (towards the heart).
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After birth, when the placental blood is cut off, blood is distributed in the liver by branches of the portal vein, which represent the advehent hepatic veins; it is collected again by branches which unite to form the revehent hepatic veins, or hepatic veins proper, and the latter open into the inferior vena cava.
1929, Frederick Randolph Bailey, Adam Marion Miller, Text-book of Embryology, page 231
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