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Portal :: Portal (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..

Interlobular :: Interlobular (a.) Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein..

Port :: Port (n.) A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.

Portal :: Portal (n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing..

Vagina :: Vagina (n.) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein..

Subhornblendic :: Subhepatic (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein..

Transportal :: Transportal (n.) Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.

Parumbilical :: Parumbilical (a.) Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen..

Sporter :: Sportal (a.) Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.

Portal :: Portal (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..

Portal :: Portal (n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions..

Portal :: Portal (n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces..

Portal :: Portal (n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

Portal :: Portal (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..

Renal-portal :: Renal-portal (a.) Both renal and portal. See Portal.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

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