As blood from the digestive organs passes through the hepatic portal circulation, the hepatocytes of the liver monitor the contents of the blood and remove many potentially toxic substances before they can reach the rest of the body.
In Geometry, Translation simply means Moving ... ... without rotating, resizing or anything else, just moving. To Translate a shape: Every point of the shape must move: the same distance. in the same direction.
In Euclidean geometry a transformation is a one-to-one correspondence between two sets of points or a mapping from one plane to another.) A translation can be described as a rigid motion: the other rigid motions are rotations, reflections and glide reflections.