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  2. Portal venous system - Wikipedia

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    In the circulatory system of vertebrates, a portal venous system occurs when a capillary bed pools into another capillary bed through veins, without first going through the heart. Both capillary beds and the blood vessels that connect them are considered part of the portal venous system. Most capillary beds drain into venules and veins which ...

  3. Hypophyseal portal system - Wikipedia

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    The hypophyseal portal system is a system of blood vessels in the microcirculation at the base of the brain, connecting the hypothalamus with the anterior pituitary. Its main function is to quickly transport and exchange hormones between the hypothalamus arcuate nucleus and anterior pituitary gland. The capillaries in the portal system are ...

  4. Hepatic portal system - Wikipedia

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    Abdomen. Anatomical terminology. [ edit on Wikidata] In human anatomy, the hepatic portal system or portal venous system is the system of veins comprising the portal vein and its tributaries. The other portal venous system in the body is the hypophyseal portal system. [1]

  5. Portal vein - Wikipedia

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    The portal vein or hepatic portal vein ( HPV) is a blood vessel that carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen to the liver. This blood contains nutrients and toxins extracted from digested contents. Approximately 75% of total liver blood flow is through the portal vein, with the remainder coming from the ...

  6. Lobules of liver - Wikipedia

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    In histology (microscopic anatomy ), the lobules of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic scale. The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue, consisting of a portal triad, hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network, and a central vein .

  7. Portal venous pressure - Wikipedia

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    Portal venous pressure. Portal venous pressure is the blood pressure in the hepatic portal vein, and is normally between 5-10 mmHg. [1] Raised portal venous pressure is termed portal hypertension, [2] and has numerous sequelae such as ascites and hepatic encephalopathy. [3] [4]

  8. Linux - Wikipedia

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    A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.

  9. Ductus venosus - Wikipedia

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    The ductus venosus (red) connects the umbilical vein to the inferior vena cava. The liver and the veins in connection with it, of a human embryo, twenty-four or twenty-five days old, as seen from the ventral surface. In the fetus, the ductus venosus ( Arantius' duct after Julius Caesar Aranzi [1]) shunts a portion of umbilical vein blood flow ...