PORTAL


Meaning of PORTAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

vertical portal

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

hypertension

Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension.

Recently Hadengue etal reported a higher prevalence of 2% in 507 patients with portal hypertension .

Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension .

Gastric varices Gastric varices are not uncommon in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension .

Clinically there was no evidence of portal hypertension .

Treatment was discontinued when patients developed evidence of cirrhosis or portal hypertension .

Our patient thus failed to show evidence of portal hypertension .

Patients described in published works with portopulmonary hypertension have all had clinically obvious portal hypertension.

pressure

Secondly, dilatation of the stents allows a graduated and controlled reduction in portal pressure .

This gradient reflects sinusoidal pressure and is an indirect measure of portal pressure.

All patients but one had increased portal pressure gradient.

An abnormal coagulation profile and raised portal pressure then tend to enhance longitudinal and circumferential expansion, resulting in submucosal dissection.

Our data and previous studies indicate that the presence of ascites is related to the magnitude of the increase in portal pressure .

vein

In these circumstances, the sensitivity of this method of detecting portal vein occlusion may be diminished.

Another postmortem study of three patients showed portal vein thrombosis with fresh thrombus extending from recently injected varices.

However spontaneous portal vein thrombus may occur in portal hypertension and the infusion of vasopressin may also play a part.

The vascular effluent was collected in one minute fractions through the portal vein .

The application of radionuclide angiography in assessing portal vein patency or occlusion has received limited attention.

In four patients cannulation of the portal vein was impossible for anatomical reasons.

The most time consuming part was related to transjugular cannulation of the portal vein .

■ VERB

enter

With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposing portals of Mon Ré, and rang the bell.

You enter through gigantic portals under great, huge heads facing in every direction.

The aftermath of the war left many displaced persons, and towns would fine vagabonds for entering their portals .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Gothic portal of the cathedral

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As I passed the portals my feeling of doom increased.

But analysts said it could be a target for a media company, internet portal or mobile phone operator seeking content.

I sense it all passing away through those portals.

In the last financial quarter WorldOnline doubled portal revenues, he said.

The cloisters are equally fine and on the north side date from 1170 like the portal .

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