revehent
English
Adjective
revehent (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Carrying away from an organ or structure (towards the heart).
- 1929, Frederick Randolph Bailey & Adam Marion Miller, Text-book of Embryology, page 231:
- After birth, when the placental blood is cut off, blood is distributed in the liver by branches of the portal vein, which represent the advehent hepatic veins; it is collected again by branches which unite to form the revehent hepatic veins, or hepatic veins proper, and the latter open into the inferior vena cava.
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) revehent