(n.) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.
(n.) The foramen of Monro.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the area of the porta hepatis, there were many epithelial luminal structures in fibrous tissue with inflammatory infiltrates.
(2) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(3) The authors emphasize a regional approach for the diagnosis of lymphadenopathy, according to the groupings of retrocrural, retroperitoneal, gastrohepatic ligament, porta hepatis, celiac and superior mesenteric artery, pancreaticoduodenal, perisplenic, mesenteric, and pelvic lymph nodes.
(4) Following antrectomy of porta-caval-shunted rats feeding no longer raised the enzyme activity.
(5) Eighteen of 31 patients survived porta hepatis injury.
(6) Immense occupancy and porta hepatis proximity of the cysts were triggers for developing jaundice.
(7) In conclusion, spontaneous contrast echoes in the right heart are produced by gas absorbed from the intestine because of porta-systemic shunting.
(8) As for the evaluation of operative results of hepatic portoenterostomy for this lesion, a proper evaluation can be made only in those cases in which a microscopic examination of the remnant of extrahepatic bile duct at the porta hepatis area has been adequately performed.
(9) A 64-year-old women was admitted for the examination of the abdominal mass (5 X 4.5 cm) at porta hepatis with acoustic shadow on ultrasonogram.
(10) Patients with variceal hemorrhage and medically resistant ascites are candidates for a side-to-side shunt, with consideration being given to an operation that avoids dissection of the porta hepatis.
(11) The incidence was high in patients suffering from chronic active hepatitis, hypercoagulable states, trauma or previous dissection of the porta hepatis, and splenectomy.
(12) After hepatic portoenterostomy for biliary atresia, granulation that formed at the porta hepatis caused biliary obstruction in seven out of 27 patients (26%).
(13) In porta-caval surgery a differentiated choice of the available shunting methods to be applied, especially techniques for selective decompression and liver arterialization, may improve the results.
(14) Margate was among the “Portas Pilot” towns which won £100,000 in funding to back new ideas to boost trade and refill empty shops on some of the UK’s most battered high streets.
(15) Duplex Doppler ultrasonography (US) and panhepatic angiography were performed and interpreted independently in 20 patients with suspected portal hypertension to assess the accuracy of duplex US in the porta hepatis.
(16) On the cholangiogram, one case showed narrowing of common hepatic duct near the porta hepatis, and one case revealed a tapered narrowing-like stenosis.
(17) Two sections of the hepatic artery were studied; the common hepatic artery where measurements were made just after the bifurcation of the coeliac axis to splenic and hepatic arteries and the hepatic artery itself, where measurements were made just proximal to the porta hepatis in a straight stretch of artery overlying the portal vein.
(18) Following antrectomy of the porta-caval shunted rats the number of enterochromaffin-like cells and the oxyntic histamine concentration was reduced.
(19) However, the Portas Review, led by retail expert Mary Portas, failed to consider accessibility for disabled customers, and only briefly mentioned older people.
(20) The injection of gelatinized carbon into the porta hepatis revealed a new pathway of the liver lymphatics running independently of the portal vein in addition to the ordinary periportal lymphatics.
Vessel
Definition:
(n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
(n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
(n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
(n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
(n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
(v. t.) To put into a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(6) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(7) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) The observed pulmonary hypertension is probably the result of the left heart insufficiency and is being discussed with regard of the histopathological alterations in the heart muscle and the pulmonary vessels.
(10) DNA synthesis by endothelium subsequently increased and within 48 hr new blood vessel formation was detected.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(13) The relationship between pressure at the functional site of origin of intracranial collateral channels (Pstem) and systemic pressure allows an estimation of the size of vascular channels from which collateral vessels originate.
(14) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
(15) It is suggested that intra-endothelial conduction of electrical signals from capillaries to the resistance vessels may be involved in the local regulation of blood flow in the intact heart.
(16) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
(17) We have characterized the effects of adenosine, the A1-receptor agonist N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)-adenosine (PIA) and the A2-receptor agonist 5'-(N-ethyl)-carboxamido-adenosine (NECA), in isolated human pulmonary vessels.
(18) It appears that the viscosity of the arterial wall must be the major source of attenuation in the larger arteries, while the viscosity of the blood plays a significant role only in the smaller vessels.
(19) In the choroid, VIP-immunoreactive fibers were seen mainly in close association with the choroidal blood vessels.
(20) Resistance vessels play a predominant role in limiting systemic arterial pressure in the orthostatic position.