(n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
(n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
(n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
(n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
(n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(3) 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.
(4) Portal venous blood flow was reduced by approximately 30%.
(5) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(6) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(7) Immediate hemostasis was not influenced by the etiology of portal hypertension.
(8) Portal vein ligation resulted in testicular atrophy and low serum testosterone concentrations.
(9) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
(10) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
(11) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
(12) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
(13) These results indicate that the pars tuberalis forms and secretes LH via the hypophyseal portal circulation.
(14) Pregnant females displayed a greater hyperinsulinemia both in the portal vein and the artery over the first hour.
(15) A low-sodium diet (0.05% Na+, control 0.5% Na+) significantly lowered stimulated [3H]NE release from portal vein and anterior hypothalamus in SHR and WKY at all three ages.
(16) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(17) On angiography portal-hepatic venous shunt was observed in one case.
(18) Terlipressin (Glypressin), a synthetic analog of vasopressin, induces arteriolar vasoconstriction which causes both a portal hypotensive effect and certain side-effects on the systemic circulation (elevated arterial pressure and reduced cardiac output).
(19) Portal lipogranulomas show a distinctive morphology with fat vacuoles surrounded by macrophages.
(20) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.
Postal
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
(2) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(3) A postal survey of all Papua New Guinean private medical practitioners was conducted to ascertain their practice characteristics, how well they kept up with current medical knowledge and whether they were interested in contributing to public sector medicine.
(4) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(5) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.
(6) The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, has vowed to fight the sale, which it says will lead to a "worse deal for customers, staff and thousands of small businesses dependent on the Royal Mail".
(7) 5.53pm GMT MPs to seek answers from Royal Mail shareholders And finally, the House of Commons business committee plans to write to large investors in Royal Mail to ask for their views on the flotation of the postal service .
(8) A postal survey has been carried out in order to know the attitudes of general practitioners concerning the harmful effects of alcohol.
(9) In the end, turnout on Thursday was a respectable 40.26%, with 7,115 of the 27,791 ballots cast via postal votes.
(10) Subjects were 279 South Australian non-specialist medical practitioners, selected by quasi-random procedures, of whom 76% responded to a postal questionnaire.
(11) A postal survey was undertaken using a questionnaire to assess the public's knowledge of cancer morbidity and mortality and the role of lifestyle and genetic risk factors.
(12) An extra effort in data collection, involving checking hospital admissions and discharges, inquiries to general practitioners and some postal questionnaires, allowed us to identify 45 extra cases of non-fatal myocardial infarction--the special procedure.
(13) To investigate sexual behaviour under the influence of alcohol and the relationship between drinking habits and unsafe sex we carried out a postal and interview survey of 2174 students in the North East of England.
(14) This article deals with certain preliminary findings obtained in a long-term prospective study begun in 1982 using the interview method; the first follow-up was carried out in 1986, the method consisting of a postal inquiry and the collection of recorded data.
(15) Community nurses received only 36 (four per cent) of all the calls despite the interests expressed by hospital nursing staff in their responses to a postal questionnaire.
(16) A total of 21,889 postal questionnaires were returned (87%) representing households containing 42,826 people aged 16 years and over.
(17) In the wake of direct shipping and postal links, this summer also saw the first direct flights across the Taiwan Straits since the civil war, with passenger services now running daily.
(18) Therefore a postal questionnaire was sent to 100 hospital doctors dealing with children asking which features made them consider a parent to be difficult or unlikeable.
(19) A postal survey was carried out on 1,416 women divided into: 1.
(20) But, as the postal sector demonstrates all too clearly, an economic regulator can unleash a whirlwind.