portal vein

Definition

A vein that conducts blood from the digestive organs, spleen, pancreas, and gallbladder to the liver[BTO].

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• subdivision of hepatic portal vein
• subdivision of pre-hepatic portal vein

Neighbouring structures

• pulmonary vein
• subcostal vein
• systemic vein

Identifiers

FMA

66645

UBERON

0002017

Wikidata

Q66562721