hepatic portal vein

Questions about hepatic portal vein

What is another word for hepatic portal vein?

It depends which hepatic portal vein you mean. In the sense “a short vein that carries blood into the liver”, the synonyms are portal vein, portal, vena portae. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of hepatic portal vein?

WordNet records no antonym for hepatic portal vein. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for hepatic portal vein come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of hepatic portal vein

• Full entry for hepatic portal veinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hepatic portal veinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.